IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nolin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70KY177058
  • User Pedon ID: 70KY177058
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 70KY177058
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 70KY-177-058
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46562
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 37.2358806
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9188944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1/2 mile west of Rochester, 100 feet south of Green River.
  • Map Unit: Nh—Nolin silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY177—Muhlenberg
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY631—McLean and Muhlenberg Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37086-B8—Rochester, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Cox Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nolin
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nolin
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 44
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—178

    —25—

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    0.5

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    119.2

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    1211

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    195

    13.5

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    KY6882

    Rochester Ferry

    coop
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots; 10 percent worm casts; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1508
    Bw1—25 to 79 centimeters (9.8 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1509, KY1510. continuous - phpvsfiid 347866; continuous - phpvsfiid 347866
    Bw2—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 10 percent worm casts; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1511. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 347867; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 347867
    Bw3—107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent noncoherent cemented brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1512
    Bw4—132 to 178 centimeters (52.0 to 70.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 10 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) coarse distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # KY1513, KY1514