IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00KY111001
  • User Pedon ID: 00KY111001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 00KY-111-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46339
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 38.1361111
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8227778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on a woodland ridgetop about 1 mile northeast of the intersection of State Highway 1931 and Arnoldtown Road, about 1,000 feet southwest of Arnoldtown Road on a woodland ridgetop
  • Map Unit: AfC—Alford silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY111—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY111—Jefferson County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-B7—Louisville West, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Blanford, P. Scott Aldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: thick fine-silty loess over residuum weathered from siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered siltstone, unspecified
  • Geology: Holtsclaw, Nancy, Kenwood, And New Providence Members member of the Borden Formation formation in the Mississippian group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/7/2005 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—28

    28—191

    140—213

    —28—

    —163—

    —73—
    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

    11

    —

    —

    210.3

    —

    1128

    —

    202

    13.4

    24.4

    1.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY4954

    Louisville WSFO

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0026; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0027; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—28 to 64 centimeters (11.0 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots throughout; 35 percent distinct clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0028; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—64 to 99 centimeters (25.2 to 39.0 inches); 70 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 55 percent distinct clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0029; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—99 to 140 centimeters (39.0 to 55.1 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 40 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; 35 percent distinct clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0030; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt4—140 to 168 centimeters (55.1 to 66.1 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 15 percent faint clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0031; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2Bt5—168 to 191 centimeters (66.1 to 75.2 inches); 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 35 percent distinct clay films; 25 percent iron-manganese masses; 2 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0032; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    2BC—191 to 213 centimeters (75.2 to 83.9 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 5 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume flat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # KY0033; moist when described; observed in pit, small