IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frondorf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73KY177001
  • User Pedon ID: 73KY177001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-177-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46612
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.1239722
  • Std. Longitude: -87.0416944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 10 miles southeast of Greenville, 3.5 miles northeast of Rosewood, 200 feet south of paved county road.
  • Map Unit: FlD—Frondorf-Lenberg complex, 12 to 20 percent slopes
  • 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: 37087-A1—Rosewood, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Cox Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frondorf
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frondorf
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: thin coarse-loamy noncalcareous loess over acid residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 71cm
  • Geology: Caseyville Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 54
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    very strongly coherent

    71 - 102

    —
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—71

    71—

    —20—

    —51—

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    143.3

    —

    1211

    —

    195

    13.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY6882

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 6-29-51 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1903
    BA—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 6-13-13 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1904
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume 13-32-51 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1905
    2Bt2—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 32 percent clay films; 65 percent by volume 13-78-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1906
    R—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1907