IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010KY149006
  • User Pedon ID: S2010KY149006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010KY149006
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1244
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40041
  • 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: 37.5945607
  • Std. Longitude: -87.3382019
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: LoC—Loring silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY149—McLean
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY631—McLean and Muhlenberg Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-E3—Calhoun, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt McCauley and Steve Neyhouse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty noncalcareous loess over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: loess hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/2010 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    DAGL

    TRIFO

    Dactylis glomerata

    Trifolium

    orchardgrass

    clover

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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

    15—203

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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

    4

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    148

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    240

    1118

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    196

    14.4

    25.3

    2.8

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    KY6595

    Providence

    coop
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 10N06024; observed in push tube
    Bt—15 to 203 centimeters (5.9 to 79.9 inches); silty clay loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog.; observed in push tube