IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canmer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 82KY099 Canmer-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 82KY099 Canmer-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 83KY-099-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46708
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.3062782
  • Std. Longitude: -85.7563171
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 8 miles northeast of Munfordville, Kentucky 1.2 miles east of U.S. Highway 31-E, 2.2 miles south of Kentucky Highway 566, and 700 feet west of Knox Creek Road
  • Map Unit: CnD2—Canmer silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY099—Hart
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY647—Hart County Area, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37085-C7—Canmer, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Mitchell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canmer (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nolichucky
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: old clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: St. Louis Limestone member of the St. Louis Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/2007 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    36—191

    —15—

    —155—
    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

    17

    —

    —

    173.7

    —

    1349

    —

    187

    13.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY3430

    Greensburg

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 12 percent by volume 13-35-51 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2580
    BA—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 12 percent by volume 13-35-51 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2581
    Bt1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent distinct clay films; 4 percent by volume 38-44-51 millimeter chert fragments and 5 percent by volume 38-44-51 millimeter quartzite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2582
    Bt2—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 13-35-51 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2583
    Bt3—91 to 150 centimeters (35.8 to 59.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine prominent and 5 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 13-35-51 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2584, KY2585
    Bt4—150 to 191 centimeters (59.1 to 75.2 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) and 2.5Y 7/0 (2.5Y 7/0) clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 60 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 6-12-19 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY2586