IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loring
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 66KY-105-004
  • User Pedon ID: 66KY-105-004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 66KY-105-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 66KY-105-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46502
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: about 0.75 mile SSW of Hailwell; Elmer Blumenberry farm; west of old unoccupied house; 135 feet west of yard fence.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY105—Hickman
  • MLRA: 131A—Southern Mississippi River Alluvium
  • 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: Frank Anderson and H.H. Bailey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Loring
  • PSC - 36 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loring
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/7/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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

    fragipan

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    71 - 142

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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

    4

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1026
    BA—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # KY1027. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 634894; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 634894
    Bt1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4. Lab sample # KY1028. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 634895; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 634895
    Bt2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 20 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # KY1029
    Btx1—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 roots between peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # KY1030
    Btx2—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; brittle; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # KY1031
    Btx3—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic, and weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; brittle; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # KY1032
    Btx4—127 to 142 centimeters (50.0 to 55.9 inches); silt loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1033
    Bt3—142 to 157 centimeters (55.9 to 61.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 15 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # KY1034. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 634899; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 634899
    Bt4—157 to 178 centimeters (61.8 to 70.1 inches); silt loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1035
    C1—178 to 193 centimeters (70.1 to 76.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # KY1036
    C2—193 to 208 centimeters (76.0 to 81.9 inches); silt loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # KY1037