IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Garmon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 75KY-217-001
  • User Pedon ID: 75KY-217-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 75KY-217-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46625
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 200 feet E of county road; 2 miles S of Merrimac; about 13 miles NE of Campbellsville.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY217—Taylor
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY620—Green and Taylor Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Garmon
  • PSC - 25 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Garmon
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from calcareous siltstone and/or residuum weathered from calcareous siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent siltstone, unspecified at 74cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Mixed hardwood forest
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    bedrock, lithic

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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
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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1987
    E—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent by volume flat unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1988
    Bw1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 20 percent by volume flat unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1989
    Bw2—36 to 74 centimeters (14.2 to 29.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 40 percent by volume flat unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1990
    R—74 to 84 centimeters (29.1 to 33.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1991