IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nolin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70KY177057
  • User Pedon ID: 70KY177057
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 70KY-177-057
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46561
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.3200556
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9869444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1/2 mile south of the Western Kentucky Parkway, 500 feet west of Green River.
  • Map Unit: Nh—Nolin silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • 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: 37086-C8—Paradise, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Cox Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrochrepts
  • 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 - Nolin
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nolin
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: IN 45A
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—23

    23—211

    —23—

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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

    —

    —

    118

    —

    1211

    —

    195

    13.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY6882

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1499
    Bw1—23 to 61 centimeters (9.1 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1500, KY1501. continuous - phpvsfiid 347850; continuous - phpvsfiid 347850
    Bw2—61 to 109 centimeters (24.0 to 42.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1502, KY1503. continuous - phpvsfiid 347851; continuous - phpvsfiid 347851
    Bw3—109 to 157 centimeters (42.9 to 61.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1504, KY1505
    Bw4—157 to 211 centimeters (61.8 to 83.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; 0.5 fine pores; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # KY1506, KY1507. continuous - phpvsfiid 347854; continuous - phpvsfiid 347854