IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10KY149005
  • User Pedon ID: S10KY149005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S10KY149005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1059
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55348
  • Print Date: 4/27/2024

    • 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: 37.5945015
  • Std. Longitude: -87.3404465
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Mauzy pits for water project.
  • Map Unit: LoC3—Loring silt loam, 6 to 12 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 and Dave Gehring
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - unnamed
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Epiaqualfs
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 73 to 123 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/2010
  • Classifier - Matt McCauley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty slope alluvium over loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member.
  • 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: 6/22/2010 (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
    • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—22

    73—203

    —22—

    —130—
    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

    3

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    134.4

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    270

    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 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; 4 percent sand; 83 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N05203
    Bg1—22 to 42 centimeters (8.7 to 16.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 80 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 23 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N05204
    Bg2—42 to 54 centimeters (16.5 to 21.3 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 6 percent sand; 74 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 22 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N05205
    Bg3—54 to 73 centimeters (21.3 to 28.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 75 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented greenish gray (10Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine prominent irregular moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N05206
    2Bt1—73 to 109 centimeters (28.7 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 6 percent sand; 61 percent silt; 33 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and 35 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds and 1 percent medium prominent irregular strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-10 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N05207, 10N05208. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 542327; continuous - phpvsfiid 542326; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 542327; continuous - phpvsfiid 542326
    2Bt2—109 to 134 centimeters (42.9 to 52.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 65 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine prominent irregular strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N05209. continuous - phpvsfiid 542328; patchy - phpvsfiid 542329; continuous - phpvsfiid 542328; patchy - phpvsfiid 542329
    2Bt3—134 to 203 centimeters (52.8 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 22 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 28 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), 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 coatings with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-10 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N05210. continuous - phpvsfiid 542330; continuous - phpvsfiid 542330