IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rowdy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 81KY-189-003
  • User Pedon ID: 81KY-189-003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 81KY-189-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 81KY-189-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46705
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: X: 2,600,200 feet, Y: 417,000 feet. About 1.4 miles south of Booneville, KY on Hwy 11, thence 1100 feet east of Hwy in a meadow.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY189—Owsley
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY623—Jackson and Owsley Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-D6—Booneville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Glenn Kelley et al.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Fluventic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rowdy
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rowdy
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/3/1981 (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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2536
    BA—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) organic stains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2537
    Bt1—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) organic stains; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2538. patchy - phpvsfiid 635656; patchy - phpvsfiid 635656
    Bt2—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2539. patchy - phpvsfiid 635658; patchy - phpvsfiid 635658
    BC—91 to 135 centimeters (35.8 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct and 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2540
    C—135 to 165 centimeters (53.1 to 65.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # KY2541