IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89KY-053-003
  • User Pedon ID: 89KY-053-003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 89KY-053-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 89KY-053-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46784
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 36.6986923
  • Std. Longitude: -85.0774384
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.8 mile N of Central Grove Church; 0.25 mile W of Road.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY053—Clinton
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY053—Clinton County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: O. Whitaker, J. Richardson, and J. Fehr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Allen
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allen
  • Classificaton Date - 5/10/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/10/1989 (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

    MESA

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Medicago sativa

    tall fescue

    alfalfa

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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

    8

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 3 percent by volume 5-?-12 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3048
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 12-?-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3049
    Bt2—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 50 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-?-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3050
    Bt3—66 to 102 centimeters (26.0 to 40.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 12-?-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 12-?-50 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3051
    Bt4—102 to 147 centimeters (40.2 to 57.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3052
    Bt5—147 to 178 centimeters (57.9 to 70.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse prominent mottles; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KY3053