IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 81KY-231-008
  • User Pedon ID: 81KY-231-008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 81KY-231-008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 81KY-231-008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46707
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 1 mile east of junction of KY Hwy 92 and KY Hwy 776. Southeast on gravel road 0.8 mile and SE on dirt road for 1 mile in a pasture field about 4.2 miles southeast of Monticello, KY.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY231—Wayne
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY231—Wayne County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl W. Hail and John M. Robbins, Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Allen
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allen
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Mixed alluvium and old colluvium from sandstone, shale, and limestone
  • Landform: terrace
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, clayey at 193cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/13/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    bedrock, paralithic

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    193 -

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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

    19

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate very fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2556
    BA—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2557
    Bt1—28 to 71 centimeters (11.0 to 28.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2558. continuous - phpvsfiid 635451; continuous - phpvsfiid 635451
    Bt2—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2559. continuous - phpvsfiid 635452; continuous - phpvsfiid 635452
    Bt3—102 to 145 centimeters (40.2 to 57.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2560. continuous - phpvsfiid 635453; continuous - phpvsfiid 635453
    Bt4—145 to 193 centimeters (57.1 to 76.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly clay loam; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2561. continuous - phpvsfiid 635454; continuous - phpvsfiid 635454
    2Cr—193 to 269 centimeters (76.0 to 105.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2562