IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lenberg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79KY-173-005
  • User Pedon ID: 79KY-173-005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 79KY-173-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 79KY-173-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46672
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 37.9465861
  • Std. Longitude: -83.8476722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2,900 feet NE of Big Round Mountain; west about 730 feet of KY-599; about 2.13 miles south of Jeffersonville. North System; East-west: 2,116,000 feet, north-south 162,850.
  • Map Unit: LeC—Lenberg silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY173—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY173—Montgomery County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-H7—Means, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Glenn E. Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, 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 - Lenberg
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lenberg
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: acid greenish-gray clayey residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale and siltstone at 94cm
  • Geology: Borden Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/1979 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    POA

    Poa

    bluegrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    94 -

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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

    10

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    277.4

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2280
    Bt1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films; 5 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2281. patchy - phpvsfiid 638143; patchy - phpvsfiid 638143
    Bt2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films; 5 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2282. continuous - phpvsfiid 638144; continuous - phpvsfiid 638144
    Bt3—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; 30 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films; 10 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2283. patchy - phpvsfiid 638145; patchy - phpvsfiid 638145
    C—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) bedrock; structureless massive; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2284
    Cr—94 centimeters (37.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2285