IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Belknap
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KY055001
  • User Pedon ID: 07KY055001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KY-055-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46377
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 37.3689995
  • Std. Longitude: -87.9245758
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Piney Creek Bottoms, Steven Hill Farm
  • Map Unit: Be—Belknap silt loam, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY055—Crittenden
  • 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: KY055—Crittenden County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-C8—Shady Grove, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ken Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Fluventic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Belknap
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/13/2012
  • Classifier - Matt McCauley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Newark
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Fluventic Endoaquepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/29/2007
  • Classifier - Ken Scott
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/29/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    endosaturation

    redox concentrations

    0—18

    18—142

    18—216

    46—216

    46—216

    —18—

    —124—

    —198—

    —180—

    —180—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    138.7

    —

    135

    1120

    —

    196

    14.4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY6595

    Providence

    coop
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0239
    Bw—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0240
    Bg1—46 to 104 centimeters (18.1 to 40.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0241
    Bg2—104 to 142 centimeters (40.9 to 55.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0242
    Cg—142 to 216 centimeters (55.9 to 85.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; structureless massive; very friable; 10 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # KY0243