IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grenada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94KY-035-002
  • User Pedon ID: 94KY-035-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KY-035-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47424
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Calloway County, KY; north of Murray, KY and south of Almo Heights; on the Howell Bucy farm.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY035—Calloway
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY610—Calloway and Marshall Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A.D. Karathanasis, S. Sykes, and R. Forsythe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, thermic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Grenada
  • PSC - 48 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grenada
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • 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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    Setting and Climate
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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3550
    BE—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3551
    Bt—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint and 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint and 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent manganese coatings and 1 percent manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3552
    Btx1—69 to 122 centimeters (27.2 to 48.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3553
    Btx2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silt loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct and 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # KY3554