IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Memphis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 82KY055008
  • User Pedon ID: 82KY055008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0698
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53485
  • 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: 37.4974333
  • Std. Longitude: -88.0373861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 8 miles north of Mattoon, 1.5 miles west of Kentucky Highway 365, 400 feet north of Bell Mines Road
  • Map Unit: MmB—Memphis silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY055—Crittenden
  • 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: KY055—Crittenden County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37088-D1—Repton, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Eullas Jacobs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: thick fine-silty noncalcareous loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Caseyville Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—107

    —18—

    —89—
    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

    4

    —

    —

    183.8

    —

    1307

    —

    191

    14.7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY6580

    Princeton 1 SE

    coop
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03453
    Bt1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03454. continuous - phpvsfiid 370441; continuous - phpvsfiid 370441
    Bt2—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent black stains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03455. continuous - phpvsfiid 370439; continuous - phpvsfiid 370439
    Bt3—64 to 107 centimeters (25.2 to 42.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03456. continuous - phpvsfiid 370432; continuous - phpvsfiid 370432
    BC—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03457. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 370431; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 370431
    C—122 to 153 centimeters (48.0 to 60.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # 83P03458