IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Melvin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1982KY055007
  • User Pedon ID: 1982KY055007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0697
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53484
  • 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: 37.1590306
  • Std. Longitude: -88.1176000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 5 miles E of Dycusburg; in a meadow field; 400 feet N of Livingston Creek; 200 feet E of Tabor Road.
  • Map Unit: Me—Melvin silt loam, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY055—Crittenden
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY055—Crittenden County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37088-B1—Fredonia, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Eullas Jacobs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, nonacid, mesic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Melvin
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/2011
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Melvin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, nonacid, mesic Typic Fluvaquents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/9/1982
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/9/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    0—25

    25—81

    —25—

    —56—
    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

    —

    —

    106.1

    —

    1307

    —

    191

    14.7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY6580

    Princeton 1 SE

    coop
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 30 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium distinct mottles; weak fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03449
    Bg—25 to 81 centimeters (9.8 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine dark concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03450
    Cg1—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; 10 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03451
    Cg2—122 to 153 centimeters (48.0 to 60.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; firm; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P03452