IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Convent
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008KY105003
  • User Pedon ID: 2008KY105003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 08KY105003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KY-105-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46404
  • 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: 36.7491667
  • Std. Longitude: -88.8975000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hickman County, Kentucky; 1.77 miles N of Old Cypress via Bugg Road on the Obion Creek Wildlife Management Area.
  • Map Unit: Ct—Convent-Mhoon silt loams, frequently flooded
  • 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: 36088-F8—Clinton, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry E. McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, thermic Fluventic Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Convent
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, thermic Fluventic Endoaquepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: Obion Creek flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for brief periods begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other shrub 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

    FRPE

    Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    green ash

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    20—69

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    —49—
    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

    0

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    103.6

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    1309

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    193

    14.3

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    KY0402

    Bardwell 2 E

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots; 2 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 2 percent fine faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    Bw—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0347; moist when described;
    Bg—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); 55 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 45 percent brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, manganese coatings throughout and 1 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, manganese masses throughout and 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0348; moist when described;
    BCg—69 to 122 centimeters (27.2 to 48.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, manganese masses throughout and 3 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, manganese coatings throughout and 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0349; moist when described;
    Cg1—122 to 168 centimeters (48.0 to 66.1 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; massive; very friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent prominent black (N 2.5/0), moist, manganese coatings throughout and 1 percent prominent black (N 2.5/0), moist, manganese masses throughout and 20 percent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0350; moist when described;
    Cg2—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); 35 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 30 percent gray (10YR 5/1) silt loam; massive; firm; 0.1 fine roots; 2 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, manganese masses throughout and 3 percent black (N 2.5/0), moist, manganese coatings throughout and 6 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog.; moist when described;