IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KY033003
  • User Pedon ID: 07KY033003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KY-033-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46367
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.1989288
  • Std. Longitude: -87.7458801
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Caldwell County line at White School Road
  • Map Unit: Vk—Vicksburg silt loam, frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY033—Caldwell
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY033—Caldwell County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-B6—Dawson Springs, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ken Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharon
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/13/2012
  • Classifier - Matt McCauley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharon
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/2007
  • Classifier - Ken Scott
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    0—20

    20—170

    46—170

    99—221

    —20—

    —150—

    —124—

    —122—
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    —

    —

    117.3

    —

    350

    1307

    —

    191

    14.7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY6580

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0202
    Bw1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0203
    Bw2—46 to 99 centimeters (18.1 to 39.0 inches); variegated 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent coarse faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0204
    Bw3—99 to 170 centimeters (39.0 to 66.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent medium prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent coarse prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0205
    C—170 to 221 centimeters (66.9 to 87.0 inches); variegated 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; structureless massive; very friable; 10 percent coarse prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent coarse prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY0206