IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tarklin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959KY009008
  • User Pedon ID: 1959KY009008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959KY009008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4907
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41596
  • 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: 36.8522224
  • Std. Longitude: -86.0533371
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 13 miles south of Glasgow on US Highway 31E at junction of Kentucky Highway 87. Photo ALK-7Z-87 (1955).
  • 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 #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tarklin
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/8/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/8/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: ALK-7Z-87
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LESPE

    Lespedeza

    lespedeza

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    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); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A37196
    B1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; 21 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions and 21 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) dark concretions; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37197
    B21—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 3 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 75 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; 21 percent fine and medium dark brown (10YR 3/3) dark concretions and 21 percent fine and medium black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37198
    B22—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 21 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) medium mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 21 percent spherical black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions and 21 percent spherical dark brown (10YR 3/3) dark concretions; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37199
    B31M—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse angular blocky, and massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A37200
    B32M—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and gray (N 6/0) clay loam; weak coarse angular blocky, and massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37201
    C1—99 to 119 centimeters (39.0 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; 3 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse angular blocky, and massive; firm; 21 percent spherical black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37202
    C2—119 to 137 centimeters (46.9 to 53.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy clay, sandy clay loam; 3 percent gray (N 6/0) medium distinct and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; massive, and weak and moderate medium angular blocky; firm; 10 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37203