IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colp
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004KY145005
  • User Pedon ID: 2004KY145005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KY-145-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46356
  • 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: 37.1123889
  • Std. Longitude: -88.7037917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: McCracken Counuty; 0.7 mile west of where Interstate 24 crosses the Ohio River floodplain, approximately 500 ft. north of KY1420
  • Map Unit: CpC2—Colp silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded, rarely flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY145—McCracken
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY602—Ballard and McCracken Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37088-A6—Paducah West, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jerry McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Chromic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colp
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colp
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: fluvio-lacustrine stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding begining in dec
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium And Lacustrine Deposits member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—203

    —13—

    —190—
    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

    —

    —

    100.2

    —

    1250

    —

    200

    14.3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY6110

    Paducah WSO

    coop
    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0143; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2Bt1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 1 percent medium distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, clay depletions throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0144; moist when described; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 515397; patchy - phpvsfiid 515397
    2Bt2—25 to 61 centimeters (9.8 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout and 5 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 15 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0145; moist when described; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 515423; patchy - phpvsfiid 515423
    2Bt3—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 20 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout and 20 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 25 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0146; moist when described; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 515424; patchy - phpvsfiid 515424
    2Btg—91 to 203 centimeters (35.8 to 79.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay; 9 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct and 9 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.1 fine roots between peds; 5 percent prominent black (2.5Y 2.5/1), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds and 20 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout and 15 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 20 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter. Lab sample # KY0147; dry when described; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 515425; continuous - phpvsfiid 515426; patchy - phpvsfiid 515425; continuous - phpvsfiid 515426