IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ashburn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959KY009005
  • User Pedon ID: 1959KY009005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4849
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41538
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 6.2 miles north of Glasgow city limits on US Highway 31E (about 0.2 mile north of Goodnight, Kentucky). Photo ALK-9Z-29.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY009—Barren
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY009—Barren County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

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


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/4/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: ALK-9Z-29
  • 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
    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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36789
    B2&B'21—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36790
    B'21&B2—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 75 percent clay films; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36791
    B'22—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and dark red (10R 3/6) silty clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; fine roots; clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36792
    B'23—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and dark red (10R 3/6) silty clay; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; clay films; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36793. continuous - phpvsfiid 746744; continuous - phpvsfiid 746744
    B'24—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) clay; moderate angular blocky parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A36794. continuous - phpvsfiid 746745; continuous - phpvsfiid 746745
    B'25—124 to 157 centimeters (48.8 to 61.8 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) clay; moderate very fine angular blocky parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; clay films; manganese concretions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A36795
    B'26—157 to 170 centimeters (61.8 to 66.9 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) clay; moderate very coarse angular blocky parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21 percent manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A36796