IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Collins
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2009KY105003
  • User Pedon ID: 2009KY105003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 09KY105003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KY-105-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46421
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 36.7555556
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0536111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hickman County, Kentucky; on north side of Bowles Creek flood plain; 6.8 miles NW of Clinton via KY 58 and Resin Road; 1.2 miles South of the Carlisle Hickman County line.
  • Map Unit: Cn—Convent-Adler silt loams, frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY105—Hickman
  • 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: 36089-G1—Arlington, 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 - 6/8/2009
  • 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: Bowles 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: 6/8/2009 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GLMA4

    Glycine max

    soybean

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    18—107

    —18—

    —89—
    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

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    —

    97.8

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    1309

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    193

    14.3

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    KY0402

    Bardwell 2 E

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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; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw1—18 to 53 centimeters (7.1 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0431; moist when described;
    Bw2—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 5 percent medium faint brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 6 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, clay depletions throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0432; moist when described;
    Bw3—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent medium faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 15 percent medium faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0433; moist when described;
    Ab—107 to 142 centimeters (42.1 to 55.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.1 fine roots; 2 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0434; moist when described;
    BC—142 to 188 centimeters (55.9 to 74.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.1 fine roots; 3 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog.; moist when described;