IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KY047001
  • User Pedon ID: 07KY047001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KY-047-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46375
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 37.1160011
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6223679
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: Cu—Cuba silt loam
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY047—Christian
  • 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: KY047—Christian County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-A5—Dawson Springs SE, 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 - 7/9/2007
  • 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: 7/9/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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—23

    23—74

    107—221

    147—221

    —23—

    —51—

    —114—

    —74—
    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

    —

    —

    123.4

    —

    338

    1306

    —

    191

    13.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0229
    Bw—23 to 74 centimeters (9.1 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0230
    C1—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; structureless massive; very friable; 5 percent fine distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0231
    C2—107 to 147 centimeters (42.1 to 57.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; structureless massive; very friable; 5 percent medium distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0232
    C3—147 to 221 centimeters (57.9 to 87.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; structureless massive; very friable; 5 percent medium prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent coarse distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY0233