IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calloway
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980KY035002
  • User Pedon ID: 1980KY035002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0151
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48445
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 36.5499992
  • Std. Longitude: -88.2833328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.4 km S on State Hwy 893 from intersection w/ State Hwy 121 2.4 km W on paved Rd. and 46 meters S in cultivated field.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY035—Calloway
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L.F. Ratliff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed Glossaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calloway
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Glossaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—23

    23—112

    112—160

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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

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine iron concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00767. few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine iron concretions concentrations; common fine and medium roots
    Bt1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine iron concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00768. few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine iron concretions concentrations; common fine roots; common medium distinct 10YR62 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 1169922; patchy - phpvsfiid 1169922
    Bt2—46 to 91 centimeters (18.1 to 35.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine iron concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00769. few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine iron concretions concentrations; few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 1169923; patchy - phpvsfiid 1169923
    Bt3—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium and coarse prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00770. Slightly brittle in lower part.; few fine roots; common medium and coarse prominent 10YR56 mottles; very few to few 10YR58 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 1169924; patchy - phpvsfiid 1169924
    Bx1—112 to 160 centimeters (44.1 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior silty clay loam; weak medium platy structure; extremely hard, firm; 0.5 coarse tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 81P00771. Brittle brown parts make up about 60 percent of the matrix. Gray seams are silty.