IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frondorf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73KY177002
  • User Pedon ID: 73KY177002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 73KY177002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-177-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46613
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 37.1890556
  • Std. Longitude: -87.0480000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 7.5 miles east of Greenville, 0.5 mile north of KY Hwy 246 at Buck Creek, 200 feet east of gravel road.
  • Map Unit: FlD—Frondorf-Lenberg complex, 12 to 20 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY177—Muhlenberg
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY631—McLean and Muhlenberg Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-B1—Drakesboro, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Cox Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frondorf
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frondorf
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: thin coarse-loamy noncalcareous loess over loamy-skeletal residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 91cm
  • Geology: Carbondale Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 49
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    LOAR10

    ROMU

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Rosa multiflora

    tall fescue

    multiflora rose

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    91 - 127

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—91

    91—

    —13—

    —78—

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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

    15

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    161.5

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    1211

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    195

    13.5

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    KY6882

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1908
    Bt—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films; 1 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1909
    2Bt1—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very channery silt loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; 65 percent by volume flat 2-78-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1910
    2Bt2—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) channery clay loam; 10 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium faint mottles; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films; 45 percent by volume flat 2-78-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1911
    R—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1912