IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Apalona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10KY149003
  • User Pedon ID: S10KY149003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10KY149003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1057
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55346
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 37.5945549
  • Std. Longitude: -87.3389969
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Mauzy pits for water project.
  • Map Unit: WlD3—Wellston silt loam, 12 to 30 percent slopes, severely eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY149—McLean
  • 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-E3—Calhoun, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt McCauley and Steve Neyhouse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Apalona
  • PSC - 12 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2012
  • Classifier - David Gehring
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Apalona
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 12 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/2010
  • Classifier - Matt McCauley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria fine-silty noncalcareous loess over Roxanna fine-silty noncalcareous loess over silty and clayey pedisediment derived from sandstone and shale over clayey residuum weathered from clayey shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Mcleansboro Group group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAGL

    LOAR10

    TRPR2

    Dactylis glomerata

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Trifolium pratense

    orchardgrass

    tall fescue

    red clover

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

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    43 - 124

    - 81 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—12

    12—147

    43—124

    —12—

    —135—

    —81—
    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

    12

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    141.4

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    300

    1120

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    196

    14.4

    25.3

    2.8

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    KY6595

    Providence

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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 4 percent sand; 76 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N05179; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—12 to 21 centimeters (4.7 to 8.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 73 percent silt; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N05180; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 542298; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 542298
    Bt2—21 to 33 centimeters (8.3 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 71 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 65 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N05181; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 542299; patchy - phpvsfiid 542300; continuous - phpvsfiid 542299; patchy - phpvsfiid 542300
    Bt/E—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 8 percent sand; 70 percent silt; 22 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 60 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N05182; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 542301; patchy - phpvsfiid 542302; continuous - phpvsfiid 542301; patchy - phpvsfiid 542302
    2Btx1—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 10 percent sand; 68 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 40 percent prominent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 60 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds and 5 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N05183; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 542303; continuous - phpvsfiid 542304; continuous - phpvsfiid 542303; continuous - phpvsfiid 542304
    3Btx2—61 to 95 centimeters (24.0 to 37.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 8 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 60 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds and 15 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N05184, 10N05185; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 542305; continuous - phpvsfiid 542306; continuous - phpvsfiid 542305; continuous - phpvsfiid 542306
    3Btx3—95 to 124 centimeters (37.4 to 48.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 20 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 60 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N05186, 10N05187; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 542307; continuous - phpvsfiid 542308; continuous - phpvsfiid 542307; continuous - phpvsfiid 542308
    3Bt—124 to 147 centimeters (48.8 to 57.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; 5 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 45 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds and 5 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N05188; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 542310; continuous - phpvsfiid 542309; continuous - phpvsfiid 542311; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 542310; continuous - phpvsfiid 542309; continuous - phpvsfiid 542311
    4BC—147 to 203 centimeters (57.9 to 79.9 inches); variegated 80 percent gray (5Y 6/1) and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; 2 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 84 percent clay; structureless massive; very firm; 55 percent prominent gray (5Y 6/1), moist, pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent fine prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-6-10 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N05189, 10N05190; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 542312; continuous - phpvsfiid 542312