IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frondorf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73KY-047-002
  • User Pedon ID: 73KY-047-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-047-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46601
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.0590806
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6315889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 26 miles NW of Hopkinsville; in Pennyrile State Park; 1,000 feet N of KY 1348; 1.2 miles E of the intersection of KY 398 and 1348.
  • Map Unit: FwF—Frondorf-Weikert complex, 20 to 40 percent slopes
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY047—Christian
  • 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: KY047—Christian County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-A6—Dawson Springs SW, 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 - Frondorf
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frondorf
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone and shale at 76cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: mixed hardwoods
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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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    77 -

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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

    20

    —

    —

    189

    —

    1306

    —

    191

    13.6

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    —

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    —

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    KY3994

    Hopkinsville

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1815
    AB—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1816
    Bt—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1817
    2Bt—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silt loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium faint and 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films; 40 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1818
    2C—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) channery loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1819
    R—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1820