IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sonora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY-099-006
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY-099-006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83KY-099-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 83KY-099-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46713
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: approximately 11 miles NE of Mundfordville; 0.3 mile S of Tampa Branch; 250 feet W of US 31E in an orchard.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY099—Hart
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY099—Hart County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Glenn Kelley, John M. Robbins, Jr., et al.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sonora
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sonora
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Weakly consolidated sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/25/1983 (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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    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

    6

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2592
    BA—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2593
    Bt1—28 to 64 centimeters (11.0 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films; 1 percent by volume quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2594
    2Bt2—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-?-25 millimeter quartz fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2595
    2Bt3—86 to 130 centimeters (33.9 to 51.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium distinct and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; strong coarse angular blocky, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume quartz fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2596, KY2597
    2BC—130 to 157 centimeters (51.2 to 61.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume quartz fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY2598
    2C—157 to 183 centimeters (61.8 to 72.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) loam; 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium prominent and 15 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; structureless massive; firm; 2 percent by volume quartz fragments. Lab sample # KY2599