IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tarklin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959KY009004
  • User Pedon ID: 1959KY009004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4904
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41593
  • 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: 36.9161110
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8611145
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 5-1/2 miles south of Glasgow near Kentucky Highway 63 (on Glover Creek, 1/2 mile east of Highway 63). Photo ALK-4Z-837.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY009—Barren
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY009—Barren County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. H. Zimmerman and James W. Dye
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tarklin
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/7/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: ALK-4Z837
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37174
    A2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; 3 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) medium faint and 3 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 21 percent spherical iron concretions; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37175
    B1—36 to 43 centimeters (14.2 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and pale olive (5Y 6/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fine and medium iron concretions; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37176
    B31M—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and massive; firm; 21 percent fine and medium black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions and 21 percent fine and medium dark brown (10YR 3/3) dark concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37177
    B32M—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 21 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct and 21 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) medium distinct mottles; 21 percent iron concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37178
    B33M—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); gray (N 6/0) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam, clay loam; very firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37179
    B34M—94 to 132 centimeters (37.0 to 52.0 inches); gray (N 6/0) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); massive; firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37180