IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Caneyville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 77KY047003
  • User Pedon ID: 77KY047003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-047-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46600
  • 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: 37.0220167
  • Std. Longitude: -87.3243500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 1,000 feet north of Kentucky Hghway 800, 1 mile east of intersection of Kentucky Highways 800 and 107, 15 miles northeast of Hopkinsville
  • Map Unit: CaB—Caneyville silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY047—Christian
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY047—Christian County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-A3—Haleys Mill, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Caneyville
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1977
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Caneyville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1973
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 86cm
  • Geology: Vienna Limestone member of the Waltersburg Sandstone And Vienna Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/10/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    indurated

    86 - 111

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—86

    86—

    —13—

    —73—

    —-
    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

    3

    —

    —

    158.5

    —

    90

    1306

    —

    191

    13.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY3994

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 5.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1808
    B21t—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium faint mottles; weak medium angular blocky parts to weak very fine and fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1809, KY1810
    B22t—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; 22 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct and 23 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1811, KY1812
    B23t—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 35 percent clay films; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, dark concretions; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-3-5 millimeter chert fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subrounded 150-254-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1813
    R—86 to 111 centimeters (33.9 to 43.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1814