IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Needmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1954KY001016
  • User Pedon ID: 1954KY001016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4889
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41578
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 1.1 miles north of Kentucky Highway 80 on Kentucky Highway 531; photo AIR-5H-88.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY001—Adair
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY001—Adair County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Needmore
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AIR-5H-88
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37077
    A2—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37078
    B2—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37079
    C—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/4) clay; brown (7.5YR 5/4) faint mottles; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A37080. Laminated clay and weathered soft shales. Soil material in place has a faint greenish cast.
    R—61 centimeters (24.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A37081. Soft shales from Warsaw limestone formation.