IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hammack
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73KY-221-011
  • User Pedon ID: 73KY-221-011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 73KY-221-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-221-011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46615
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 100 feet South of location of 73KY-221-010.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY221—Trigg
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY629—Lyon and Trigg Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Glossic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hammack
  • PSC - 84 to 134 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hammack
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1973 (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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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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

    10

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1922
    Bt—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) very channery silt loam; weak medium angular blocky, and weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films; 75 percent by volume chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1923
    BE—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on rock fragments; 75 percent by volume chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1924
    2Bt1—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films and 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt coats; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1925
    2Bt2—112 to 140 centimeters (44.1 to 55.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt coats and 30 percent clay films; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1926
    2Bt3—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) clay; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1927
    2Bt4—165 to 191 centimeters (65.0 to 75.2 inches); clay; fragments. Lab sample # KY1928
    2Bt5—191 to 241 centimeters (75.2 to 94.9 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 1 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume chert fragments. Lab sample # KY1929