IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 76KY-029-003
  • User Pedon ID: 2016KY029002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 76KY-029-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 76KY-029-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46640
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 300 yards east of narrow blacktop road; 0.2 mile north of KY Hwy 1526; 0.6 mile west of KY Hwy 1020 at Brooks; about 5 miles north of Shepherdsville, KY.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY029—Bullitt
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY608—Bullitt and Spencer Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Nasis
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otwood
  • PSC - 23 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/20/2016
  • Classifier - Matt McCauley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Otwell
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Alluvium and colluvium outwash from Knobs
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANVI2

    LOAR10

    Andropogon virginicus

    Lolium arundinaceum

    broomsedge bluestem

    tall fescue

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

    fragipan

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    64 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—23

    23—234

    64—234

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    —211—

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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 (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2087
    Bt1—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films and 10 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2088
    Bt2—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films and 10 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt coats; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2089
    Btx1—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats and 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2090
    Btx2—91 to 132 centimeters (35.8 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2091
    Btx3—132 to 183 centimeters (52.0 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2092
    Btx4—183 to 234 centimeters (72.0 to 92.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KY2093