IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sonora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71KY-093-007
  • User Pedon ID: 71KY-093-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 71KY-093-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46577
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 200 feet E of KY 1031; 0.75 mile N of intersection with KY 222; 5.5 miles S of Elizabethtown.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY093—Hardin
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY621—Hardin and Larue Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sonora
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sonora
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Silty material 34 inches thick over residuum from slump sandstone formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1630
    Ap2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1631
    Bw—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent silt coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1632
    Bt1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1633
    Bt2—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1634
    2Bt3—86 to 99 centimeters (33.9 to 39.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct and 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1635
    2Bt4—99 to 132 centimeters (39.0 to 52.0 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) silty clay; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 roots; 50 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1636
    2Bt5—132 to 163 centimeters (52.0 to 64.2 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1637
    2Bt6—163 to 180 centimeters (64.2 to 70.9 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) clay loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KY1638