IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Memphis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1966KY105001
  • User Pedon ID: 1966KY105001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 66KY105001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 66KY-105-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46499
  • Print Date: 5/5/2024

    • 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: 36.6847722
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1254000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 1 mile west of Hailwell. J.T. workman farm; 30 feet south, 100 feet west of junction of bluff road and road leadin to highway 123. Site 150 feet east of crest of Mississippi River bluffs.
  • Map Unit: LoB—Loring silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY105—Hickman
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY611—Carlisle and Hickman Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36089-F2—Wolf Island, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Anderson and H.H. Bailey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • Classificaton Date - 11/7/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: thick fine-silty noncalcareous loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: loess hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/7/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 21
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    GLMA4

    Glycine max

    soybean

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—109

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    —91—
    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    4

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    118.9

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    180

    1201

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    14.9

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    Mayfield

    coop
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0993
    B21t—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0994. continuous - phpvsfiid 372857; continuous - phpvsfiid 372857
    B22t—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # KY0995. continuous - phpvsfiid 372858; continuous - phpvsfiid 372858
    B23t—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # KY0996. continuous - phpvsfiid 372859; continuous - phpvsfiid 372859
    B24t—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # KY0997. continuous - phpvsfiid 372860; continuous - phpvsfiid 372860
    B25t—79 to 94 centimeters (31.1 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # KY0998. continuous - phpvsfiid 372861; continuous - phpvsfiid 372861
    B26t—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # KY0999. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 372862; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 372862
    B31—109 to 124 centimeters (42.9 to 48.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # KY1000. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 372863; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 372863
    B32—124 to 140 centimeters (48.8 to 55.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 5 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # KY1001. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 372864; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 372864
    C1—140 to 155 centimeters (55.1 to 61.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 5 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # KY1002. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 372865; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 372865
    C2—155 to 170 centimeters (61.0 to 66.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # KY1003
    C3—170 to 188 centimeters (66.9 to 74.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # KY1004