IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loring
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 82KY055005
  • User Pedon ID: 82KY055005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0696
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53483
  • 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: 37.3585944
  • Std. Longitude: -87.9613167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 7.2 mies east of Marion, 2.2 miles west of Piney Creek, 600 feet north of Kentucky Highway 120
  • Map Unit: LoB—Loring silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY055—Crittenden
  • 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: KY055—Crittenden County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-C8—Shady Grove, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Eullas Jacobs, John M. Robbins Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Typic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Loring
  • PSC - 33 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loring
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty noncalcareous loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    74 - 160

    - 86 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—20

    33—160

    74—160

    —20—

    —127—

    —86—
    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

    —

    —

    —

    176.8

    —

    1307

    —

    191

    14.7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY6580

    Princeton 1 SE

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03441
    BA—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03442. patchy - phpvsfiid 497473; patchy - phpvsfiid 497473
    Bt1—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03443. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 497474; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 497474
    Bt2—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint and 5 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct and 5 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 83P03444. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 497475; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 497475
    Btx1—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; 25 percent pale red (2.5YR 7/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to thick platy structure; firm; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03445. continuous - phpvsfiid 497476; continuous - phpvsfiid 497476
    Btx2—104 to 160 centimeters (40.9 to 63.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; 25 percent pale red (2.5YR 7/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; firm; brittle; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03446. patchy - phpvsfiid 497477; patchy - phpvsfiid 497477
    2C—160 to 198 centimeters (63.0 to 78.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 1 percent pale red (2.5YR 7/2) coarse distinct mottles; structureless massive; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # 83P03447