IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pembroke
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79KY213011
  • User Pedon ID: 79KY213011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 79KY-213-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46683
  • 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: 36.7852389
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6146861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 500 feet east of Mary Adams Road, 0.6 mile east of the intersection of Kentucky Highway 73 and Jances Mill Road, and approximately 5 miles northwest of Franklin, in a pasture
  • Map Unit: PeA—Pembroke silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY213—Simpson
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY213—Simpson County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36086-G5—Woodburn, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Mitchell and Ed Campbell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, mesic Mollic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pembroke
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pembroke
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: karst upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Ste. Genevieve Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—173

    —28—

    —145—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    200

    —

    1347

    —

    202

    14.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY7215

    Scottsville 3 SSW

    coop
    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silt loam; weak and moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2322
    Ap2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); 95 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 5 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silt loam; weak and moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2323
    B1t—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, dark concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2324
    B21t—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent clay films and 35 percent black stains on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2325
    B22t—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 35 percent clay films and 35 percent black stains; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, dark concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2326
    B23t—102 to 142 centimeters (40.2 to 55.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent clay films and 35 percent black stains on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2327
    B24t—142 to 173 centimeters (55.9 to 68.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 35 percent clay films; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, dark concretions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # KY2328