IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frondorf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71KY-107-054
  • User Pedon ID: 71KY-107-054
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 71KY-107-054
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46580
  • 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: 37.3703417
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6896306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 600 feet E of gravel road; 1 mile N of KY 1034; 1.5 miles E of KY 109; about 7 miles W of Madisonville.
  • Map Unit: uHosC2—Hosmer silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY107—Hopkins
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY107—Hopkins County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-C6—Coiltown, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic 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 - Frondorf
  • PSC - 36 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frondorf
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium over residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone and/or shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 99cm
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    99 - 124

    - 25 -

    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

    25

    —

    —

    120.4

    —

    1222

    —

    190

    14.4

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    —

    —

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    KY5067

    Madisonville

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1659
    AB—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1660
    BA—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1661
    Bt1—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1662
    Bt2—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) channery clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 35 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1663
    BC1—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films; 35 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1664
    BC2—94 to 99 centimeters (37.0 to 39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very channery sandy clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; 10 percent clay films; 60 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1665
    R—99 centimeters (39.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1666