IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loring
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 66KY-105-006
  • User Pedon ID: 66KY-105-006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 66KY-105-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 66KY-105-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46504
  • 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: 36.7929139
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0908417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Byron Bodkin farm; about 100 feet W of Hwy 123; about 600 feet S of Carlisle County line.
  • Map Unit: LoB—Loring silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • 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-G1—Arlington, Kentucky
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Anderson and H.H. Bailey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • 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 - Loring
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loring
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/1966
  • 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5F90(3-1)
  • 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

    LOAR10

    TRIFO

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Trifolium

    tall fescue

    clover

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

    fragipan

    69 - 147

    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

    124.1

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1049
    Bt1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # KY1050. continuous - phpvsfiid 635101; continuous - phpvsfiid 635101
    Bt2—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # KY1051. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635102; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635102
    Bt3—48 to 61 centimeters (18.9 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9. Lab sample # KY1052. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635103; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635103
    Bt4—61 to 69 centimeters (24.0 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct and 15 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # KY1053. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635104; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635104
    Btx1—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate very coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 2 percent silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # KY1054. continuous - phpvsfiid 635105; continuous - phpvsfiid 635105
    Btx2—84 to 99 centimeters (33.1 to 39.0 inches); silty clay loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # KY1055
    Btx3—99 to 117 centimeters (39.0 to 46.1 inches); silt loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # KY1056
    Btx4—117 to 132 centimeters (46.1 to 52.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 2 percent silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 30 percent clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # KY1057. continuous - phpvsfiid 635107; continuous - phpvsfiid 635107
    Btx5—132 to 147 centimeters (52.0 to 57.9 inches); silt loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # KY1058
    C1—147 to 163 centimeters (57.9 to 64.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 15 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate very coarse prismatic structure; friable; 5 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # KY1059
    C2—163 to 178 centimeters (64.2 to 70.1 inches); silt loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # KY1060