IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dunning
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09KY021 Dunning-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 09KY021 Dunning-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KY-021-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46423
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 37.6494446
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8238907
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in a soybean field 250 feet east of Mocks Branch; 600 feet north of Hwy. 150; 1.2 mile west of Hwy. 127 ByPass around Danville, KY; Danville USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: Du—Dunning silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY021—Boyle
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY606—Boyle and Mercer Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37084-F7—Danville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bob Eigel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dunning (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dunning
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, phosphatic
  • Geology: Alluvium member of the Alluvium formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    cambic horizon

    0—38

    0—244

    0—244

    0—244

    38—122

    —38—

    —244—

    —244—

    —244—

    —84—
    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

    0.5

    —

    —

    290

    —

    1241

    —

    198

    12.9

    23.5

    1.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY2040

    Danville

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine and medium prominent spherical very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0373; observed in push tube
    Ag—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium granular structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine and medium prominent spherical very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0374; observed in push tube
    Bg1—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine and medium prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0375; observed in push tube
    Bg2—71 to 122 centimeters (28.0 to 48.0 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine faint spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 10 percent coarse prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 20 percent fine and medium prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0376; observed in push tube
    Cg—122 to 244 centimeters (48.0 to 96.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) silty clay; structureless massive; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine faint spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 10 percent coarse prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 20 percent fine and medium prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter. Lab sample # KY0377; observed in push tube