IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Collins
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007KY039007
  • User Pedon ID: 2007KY039007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KY-039-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46374
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 36.9483333
  • Std. Longitude: -88.8477778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Carlisle County, KY; 1.7 miles SW of Lovelaceville; 1.3 miles W of JCT of U.S. 62 and KY 1820.
  • Map Unit: Cn—Convent-Adler silt loams, frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY039—Carlisle
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY611—Carlisle and Hickman Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36088-H7—Lovelaceville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry E. McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, thermic Fluvaquentic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Collins
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, active, thermic Fluvaquentic Eutrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: Mayfield Creek flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/15/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - swamp
  • 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—28

    28—102

    —28—

    —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

    0

    —

    —

    101.5

    —

    1309

    —

    193

    14.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY0402

    Bardwell 2 E

    coop
    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 6.0 fine roots; 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Ap2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), moist, manganese coatings throughout and 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw1—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent fine faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent distinct very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), moist, manganese coatings throughout and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0227; moist when described;
    Bw2—56 to 102 centimeters (22.0 to 40.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 5 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 5 percent very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), moist, manganese coatings throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0228; moist when described;
    Cg1—102 to 163 centimeters (40.2 to 64.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; massive; very friable; 0.1 fine roots; 5 percent medium prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent prominent very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), moist, manganese coatings throughout and 20 percent medium faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Cg2—163 to 216 centimeters (64.2 to 85.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; massive; very friable; 5 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent coarse brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, manganese coatings throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog.; moist when described;