IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sadler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 58KY177001
  • User Pedon ID: 58KY177001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 58KY177001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 58KY-177-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46475
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.2070833
  • Std. Longitude: -87.2208056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Greenville Soil Experimental Field, 30 feet from north fence, 6 feet from stake plot marker in edge of plot 1A, Series 400.
  • Map Unit: SaB—Sadler silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY177—Muhlenberg
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY631—McLean and Muhlenberg Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-B2—Greenville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Cox Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Glossic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sadler
  • PSC - 18 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sadler
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty noncalcareous loess over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 211cm
  • Geology: Carbondale Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 41
  • 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

    TRAE

    Triticum aestivum

    common wheat

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    bedrock, lithic

    noncoherent

    indurated

    46 - 147

    211 - 236

    - 101 -

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    glossic horizon

    fragipan

    lithic contact

    0—18

    18—84

    33—46

    46—147

    211—

    —18—

    —66—

    —13—

    —101—

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    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

    —

    —

    164.6

    —

    1211

    —

    195

    13.5

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    KY6882

    Rochester Ferry

    coop
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0807
    Bt—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 7 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0808. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 347910; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 347910
    E/B—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; 1 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) fine faint and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots; 7.0 fine pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0809
    Btx1—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) and 32 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 33 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0810
    Btx2—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 33 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and 33 percent brown (10YR 4/3) mottles; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0811
    Btx3—74 to 84 centimeters (29.1 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 33 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 33 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) mottles; very coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0812
    Bx1—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; 33 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 33 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) mottles; very coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 12 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0813
    Bx2—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) mottles; very coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0814
    Bx3—122 to 147 centimeters (48.0 to 57.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and light gray (10YR 7/1) mottles; very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # KY0815; observed in auger, bucket
    2C—147 to 183 centimeters (57.9 to 72.0 inches); variegated light gray (10YR 7/1) and yellow (10YR 7/8) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) silty clay; structureless massive; very firm, slightly plastic; 7 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments.; observed in auger, bucket
    2C—183 to 211 centimeters (72.0 to 83.1 inches); variegated light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) and light gray (10YR 7/1) silt loam; 13 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments.; observed in auger, bucket
    R—211 to 236 centimeters (83.1 to 92.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket