IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frondorf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73KY-047-004
  • User Pedon ID: 73KY-047-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-047-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46603
  • 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: 36.9213361
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5006278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 3 miles N of Hopkinsville; 300 feet S of Lake Blythe and 1,000 feet NW of billy Goat Hill Road; opposite right angle turn 1.5 miles NW of US 41; 0.5 mile N of intersection of US 41 and KY 1612.
  • Map Unit: FwD—Frondorf-Weikert complex, 12 to 20 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: 36087-H5—Pleasant Green Hill, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - 11/15/2011
  • 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, unspecified at 84cm
  • 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

    bedrock, paralithic

    —

    —

    85 - 92

    128 -

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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

    15

    —

    —

    198.1

    —

    1306

    —

    191

    13.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    KY3994

    Hopkinsville

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1827
    E—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1828
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films and 30 percent silt coats; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1829
    Bt2—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1830
    2Bt3—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films; 50 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1831
    2R—84 to 91 centimeters (33.1 to 35.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1832
    3Bt—91 to 99 centimeters (35.8 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silty clay loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium faint and 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; 0.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films; 50 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1833
    3C—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; very firm; 10 percent pressure faces; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1834
    3Cr—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1835