IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010KY149047
  • User Pedon ID: S2010KY149047
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2010KY149047
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 42
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1285
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40082
  • 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: 37.5945112
  • Std. Longitude: -87.3397649
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: WlD3—Wellston silt loam, 12 to 30 percent slopes, severely eroded
  • 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, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - unnamed
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium over residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: loess hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/2010 (actual site observation 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

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    redox concentrations

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    20—

    20—

    20—48

    48—150

    120—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

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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

    —

    —

    137

    —

    270

    1118

    —

    196

    14.4

    25.3

    2.8

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    KY6595

    Providence

    coop
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # 10N06147; observed in push tube
    Bw—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); silt loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog.; observed in push tube
    Btb—48 to 120 centimeters (18.9 to 47.2 inches); silty clay loam; fragments.; observed in push tube
    2Bt—120 to 150 centimeters (47.2 to 59.1 inches); clay; fragments.; observed in push tube