IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Memphis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 66KY-105-003
  • User Pedon ID: 66KY-105-003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 66KY-105-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 66KY-105-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46501
  • Print Date: 5/5/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: about 1 mile WNW of Columbus; Elmo Drew farm; 120 feet SW of large hickory tree in hayfield; gate into field near public dump along Mississippi River bluff.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY105—Hickman
  • MLRA: 131A—Southern Mississippi River Alluvium
  • 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-G1—Arlington, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Anderson and R.I. Barnhisel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Memphis
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 81A36(3-2
  • 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

    LOAR10

    Lespedeza

    Lolium arundinaceum

    lespedeza

    tall fescue

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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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    4

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1015
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1016. continuous - phpvsfiid 635326; continuous - phpvsfiid 635326
    Bt2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 roots between peds; 30 percent clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # KY1017. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635327; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635327
    Bt3—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # KY1018. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635328; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635328
    Bt4—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1019. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635329; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635329
    Bt5—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 1 percent silt coats; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # KY1020
    Bt6—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.0 very fine pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # KY1021
    BC1—122 to 142 centimeters (48.0 to 55.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # KY1022
    BC2—142 to 163 centimeters (55.9 to 64.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate very coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5. Lab sample # KY1023
    C1—163 to 178 centimeters (64.2 to 70.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # KY1024
    C2—178 to 193 centimeters (70.1 to 76.0 inches); silt loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # KY1025