IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Routon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94KY-083-011
  • User Pedon ID: 94KY-083-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KY-083-011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47431
  • 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: 36.8334000
  • Std. Longitude: -88.6217500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: John Green farm on Mayfield Creek; 5.8 miles north of Mayfield, KY; 1.5 miles northeast of Hickory, KY.
  • Map Unit: RtA—Routon silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY083—Graves
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY083—Graves County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36088-G5—Westplains, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A.D. Karathanasis, J. McIntosh, and P. Gregory
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Typic Fragiaquults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Routon
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Routon
  • Classificaton Date - 6/23/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/23/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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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

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    124.4

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3590
    Eg—10 to 43 centimeters (3.9 to 16.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) fine prominent and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3591
    Btg1—43 to 84 centimeters (16.9 to 33.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent prominent manganese coatings and 1 percent prominent manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3592
    Btg2—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine prominent and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent prominent manganese coatings and 15 percent prominent manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3593
    Btg3—107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 fine roots; 15 percent prominent manganese coatings and 15 percent prominent manganese masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3594
    Btgx—132 to 173 centimeters (52.0 to 68.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent prominent manganese coatings; fragments. Lab sample # KY3595