IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Memphis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 66KY-105-002
  • User Pedon ID: 66KY-105-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 66KY-105-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 66KY-105-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46500
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 36.7249028
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1111444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 1 mile W of northern junction of Hwys 808 and 123; Billy and Carol Fortner farm at head of dirt road at old house site; 330 feet W of shed and 110 feet E of filed gate on west side of field.
  • Map Unit: MeC2—Memphis silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY105—Hickman
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • 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-F1—Oakton, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Anderson and H.H. Bailey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/7/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5F84(3-4)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    TRIFO

    Trifolium

    clover

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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

    3.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1005
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent clay films; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9. Lab sample # KY1006. continuous - phpvsfiid 610721; continuous - phpvsfiid 610721
    Bt2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1007
    Bt3—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1. Lab sample # KY1008. continuous - phpvsfiid 610723; continuous - phpvsfiid 610723
    Bt4—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # KY1009
    Bt5—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9. Lab sample # KY1010. continuous - phpvsfiid 610724; continuous - phpvsfiid 610724
    Bt6—104 to 124 centimeters (40.9 to 48.8 inches); fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1011
    BC—124 to 140 centimeters (48.8 to 55.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 very fine pores; 15 percent clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1012. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610725; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610725
    C1—140 to 155 centimeters (55.1 to 61.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; friable; 10 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1. Lab sample # KY1013
    C2—155 to 170 centimeters (61.0 to 66.9 inches); fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # KY1014