IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ashburn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959KY009001
  • User Pedon ID: 1959KY009001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4848
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41537
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 37.1138878
  • Std. Longitude: -85.9702759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 9 miles northwest of Glasgow on Kentucky Highway 90. Photo ALK-7Z-219.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY009—Barren
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY009—Barren County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. V. Huffman and W. H. Zimmerman
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashburn
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: karstland
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: ALK-7Z219
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36781
    A3&B'21—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36782. This is a mixed horizon.
    B'21&B2—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 10 percent clay films; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36783. This is a mixed horizon.
    B'22—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior silty clay loam, silt loam; moderate and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36784
    B'23—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior silty clay, silt loam; moderate and strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; clay films; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36785
    B'24—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) exterior and red (10R 4/6) crushed clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and fine angular blocky structure; very firm; prominent clay films; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36786
    B'25—109 to 132 centimeters (42.9 to 52.0 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) exterior and red (10R 4/6) crushed clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36787
    B'26—132 to 168 centimeters (52.0 to 66.1 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) exterior and red (10R 4/6) crushed clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36788