IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sano
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KY-001-001
  • User Pedon ID: 2006KY001001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KY-001-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46361
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 37.1445417
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1065278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Adair county, KY; 11.5 miles northeast of Columbia, KY; 6.6 miles east of teh intersection KY Hwy 206 and KY Hwy 531; 1.9 miles southeast of the intersection of KY Hwy 206 and Millerfield Road; 940 feet southwest of intersection of Sulphur Creek Road and Millerfield Road in pasture.
  • Map Unit: Sa—Sano silt loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY001—Adair
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY001—Adair County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37085-B1—Dunnville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harry Evans, John Jenkins, Bill Craddock
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Glossic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sano (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Classifier - Harry Evans
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sango
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Glossic Fragiudults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/28/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty noncalcareous loess over fine-silty residuum weathered from limestone and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: broad ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Salem And Warsaw Limestones formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    71 - 205

    - 134 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    glossic horizon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—25

    25—71

    53—71

    71—206

    71—206

    —25—

    —43—

    —18—

    —135—

    —135—
    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

    —

    —

    317

    —

    1280

    —

    159

    13.7

    24.1

    2.7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    151725

    Columbia State Police

    COOP
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3980; observed in pit, small
    Bw—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine tubular pores; ; 3 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3981; observed in pit, small
    Btx/E—53 to 72 centimeters (20.9 to 28.3 inches); variegated 60 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) and 40 percent gray (2.5Y 6/1) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.9 fine roots throughout; 0.9 fine tubular pores; 4 percent prominent light gray (2.5Y 7/1) silt coats on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent medium irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron-manganese nodules in matrix and 5 percent fine spherical black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 5 percent fine irregular 7.5YR 4/8 (7.5YR 4/8) iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume flat 2-35-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3982; observed in pit, small
    Btx1—72 to 120 centimeters (28.3 to 47.2 inches); variegated 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 40 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.1 very fine roots between peds; 5.0 fine pores; 10 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds and 26 percent distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2) silt coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular red (2.5YR 5/8) iron-manganese nodules in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct spherical black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 1 percent medium distinct spherical black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct irregular red (7.5R 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume flat 2-35-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume flat 2-35-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY3983; observed in pit, small
    Btx2—120 to 205 centimeters (47.2 to 80.7 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 4.0 fine pores; 26 percent distinct gray (10YR 6/1) clay films on vertical faces of peds and 26 percent prominent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) silt coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular red (2.5YR 5/8) iron-manganese masses in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct spherical greenish black (10Y 2/1) iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct spherical black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-35-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter. Lab sample # KY3984; observed in pit, small