IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dunning
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09KY606001
  • User Pedon ID: 09KY021001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KY-021-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46424
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 37.6561127
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8836136
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in a corn field 250 feet east of Quirks Run Branch; 1,500 feet north of Hwy. 150; 4.2 miles west of Hwy. 127 ByPass around Danville, KY; Perryvile USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: Du—Dunning silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY021—Boyle
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY606—Boyle and Mercer Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37084-F8—Perryville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bob Eigel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dunning
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dunning
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    cambic horizon

    0—43

    0—244

    0—244

    0—244

    43—122

    —43—

    —244—

    —244—

    —244—

    —79—
    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

    0.5

    —

    —

    274

    —

    1241

    —

    198

    12.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY2040

    Danville

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine and medium prominent spherical very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0368; observed in push tube
    Ag—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent medium prominent spherical very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0369; observed in push tube
    Bg1—43 to 81 centimeters (16.9 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent coarse prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0370; observed in push tube
    Bg2—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 50 percent very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent coarse prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix and 20 percent medium and coarse prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0371; observed in push tube
    Cg—122 to 244 centimeters (48.0 to 96.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) silty clay loam; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent medium and coarse prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-10-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter. Lab sample # KY0372; observed in push tube