IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hammack
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 61KY-033-001
  • User Pedon ID: 61KY-033-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 61KY-033-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 61KY-033-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46477
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Jargo Hemingway farm on KY Hwy 515; 75 yards E of Eddy Creek Church; 42 yards N of Hwy 515. Near crest of narrow ridge in a karsted area, Western Pennyroyal (limestone).
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY033—Caldwell
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY033—Caldwell County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Glossic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hammack
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hammack
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/1961 (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

    LESPE

    Lespedeza

    lespedeza

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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

    3.5

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0827
    BA—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0828
    Bt1—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam, silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films; 1 percent fine manganese masses; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0829
    Bt2—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium prominent and 1 percent very dark gray (N 3/ fine prominent mottles; weak medium angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0830
    2Btb1—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) coarse prominent mottles; structureless massive; extremely hard; 1.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 90 percent by volume chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0831
    2Btb2—94 to 117 centimeters (37.0 to 46.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and dark red (10R 3/6) silty clay; 1 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/4) medium prominent and 1 percent pink (7.5YR 7/4) medium prominent and 1 percent pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on rock fragments; 20 percent by volume chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0832
    2Btb3—117 centimeters (46.1 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent pink (7.5YR 7/4) medium prominent and 15 percent pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent clay films on rock fragments; 80 percent by volume chert fragments. Lab sample # KY0833