IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Feliciana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2003KY007002
  • User Pedon ID: 2003KY007002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 03KY007002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 03KY-007-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46346
  • 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: 37.0211000
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0313000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.3 miles southeast of Barlow, 1.4 miles east of the JCT of US 60 and KY 1368 on south side of KY 1368
  • Map Unit: FeB—Feliciana silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY007—Ballard
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY602—Ballard and McCracken Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37089-A1—Barlow, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Feliciana
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/11/2012
  • Classifier - J. Craig Harris
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, active, thermic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: thick fine-silty noncalcareous loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/2003 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—183

    —18—

    —165—
    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

    3

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    137.2

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    1252

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    186

    14.3

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    KY4967

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0087
    Bt1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 fine roots; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent prominent black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0088
    Bt2—36 to 76 centimeters (14.2 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent prominent black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds and 1 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, clay depletions on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0089
    Bt3—76 to 132 centimeters (29.9 to 52.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent prominent black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds and 1 percent distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, clay depletions on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0090
    Bt4—132 to 183 centimeters (52.0 to 72.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent prominent black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds and 5 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, clay depletions on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0091
    BC—183 to 203 centimeters (72.0 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent prominent black (N 2.5/0), moist, iron-manganese masses and 2 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay depletions on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY0092