IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Renox
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89KY057 Renox-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 89KY057 Renox-OSD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 89KY057 Renox-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 89KY-057-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46787
  • 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: 36.8782921
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4011536
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 7.4 miles northwest of Burkesville courthouse on Kentucky Highway 61, about 200 feet southwest of Kentucky Highway 61 and about 520 feet northeast of Big Renox Creek in a burley tobacco patch.
  • Map Unit: ReC2—Renox gravelly loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY057—Cumberland
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY057—Cumberland County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36085-H4—Breeding, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Rick Livingston and Phillip Gregory
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Renox (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 32 to 82 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Renox
  • Classificaton Date - 8/14/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy colluvium derived from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Cumberland Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/14/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    NICOT

    Nicotiana

    tobacco

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    33—135

    —15—

    —102—
    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

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    192

    —

    220

    1280

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    180

    13.7

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    KY7800

    Summer Shade

    coop
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; 8 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3087; moist when described;
    BA—15 to 32 centimeters (5.9 to 12.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 7 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3088; moist when described;
    Bt1—32 to 61 centimeters (12.6 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 13 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3089; moist when described;
    Bt2—61 to 92 centimeters (24.0 to 36.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 6 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3090; moist when described;
    Bt3—92 to 135 centimeters (36.2 to 53.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3091; moist when described;
    BC—135 to 170 centimeters (53.1 to 66.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY3092; moist when described;