IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pembroke
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79KY-213-004
  • User Pedon ID: 79KY-213-004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 79KY-213-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 79KY-213-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46678
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 2.5 miles W of KY 73; 5.3 miles NW of Franklin. X: 1,734,500 feet, Y: 164,500 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY213—Simpson
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY213—Simpson County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36086-G6—Auburn, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pembroke
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pembroke
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    GLMA4

    NICOT

    Glycine max

    Nicotiana

    soybean

    tobacco

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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

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2329
    Bw—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2330
    Bt1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2331. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638337; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638337
    Bt2—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2332. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638338; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638338
    Bt3—94 to 117 centimeters (37.0 to 46.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2333. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638339; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638339
    Bt4—117 to 140 centimeters (46.1 to 55.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay films; 15 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2334. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638340; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638340
    Bt5—140 to 183 centimeters (55.1 to 72.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KY2335. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638341; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638341