IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Memphis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86KY-139-008
  • User Pedon ID: 86KY-139-008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 86KY-139-008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KY-139-008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46765
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.3778458
  • Std. Longitude: -88.3155899
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 150 feet N of a farm lane; 433 yards SE of junction of farm road and Lola-Solum Road; about 5 miles N of junction of KY 838 and Lola-Solum Road; about 0.5 mile E of Lola; KY coordinate grid values: east-west about 1,254,700 feet, north-south about 390,400 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY139—Livingston
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY139—Livingston County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Robbins, K. Bates, R. Forsythe, and Ken Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • PSC - 31 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • Classificaton Date - 5/6/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess over residuum from limestone (Fredonia limestone member of Ste. Genevicue limestone geological formation)
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/6/1986 (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

    11

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2916
    BA—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2917
    Bt1—31 to 51 centimeters (12.2 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2918. continuous - phpvsfiid 639239; continuous - phpvsfiid 639239
    Bt2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 1 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2919. continuous - phpvsfiid 639240; continuous - phpvsfiid 639240
    Bt3—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2920. continuous - phpvsfiid 639241; continuous - phpvsfiid 639241
    Bt4—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine faint and 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2921. continuous - phpvsfiid 639242; continuous - phpvsfiid 639242
    BC—152 to 175 centimeters (59.8 to 68.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2922. patchy - phpvsfiid 639243; patchy - phpvsfiid 639243
    C1—175 to 198 centimeters (68.9 to 78.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; structureless massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2923
    C2—198 to 224 centimeters (78.0 to 88.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; structureless massive; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY2924
    C3—224 centimeters (88.2 inches); silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # KY2925