IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ruston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 61KY-035-001
  • User Pedon ID: 61KY-035-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 61KY-035-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 61KY-035-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46478
  • 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: 36.5236969
  • Std. Longitude: -88.4583740
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Site on Harvey Ellis farm; 2.3 miles NE of the SW corner of county.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY035—Calloway
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY610—Calloway and Marshall Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36088-E4—Lynn Grove, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.H. Newton and T.B. Hutcheson, Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ruston
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ruston
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Thin loess over Coastal Plain
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    QUERC

    Quercus

    oak

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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

    12

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam, loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0834
    E—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam, loam; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0835
    BA—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 30 percent silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0836
    Bt1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0837. continuous - phpvsfiid 610728; continuous - phpvsfiid 610728
    Bt2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; weak coarse angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0838. continuous - phpvsfiid 610729; continuous - phpvsfiid 610729
    2Bt3—53 to 91 centimeters (20.9 to 35.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine pores; 15 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0839. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610730; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610730
    2C—91 to 163 centimeters (35.8 to 64.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable; 1.0 fine pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # KY0840