IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calloway
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94KY-035-004
  • User Pedon ID: 94KY-035-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KY-035-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47425
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Calloway County, KY; southwest of Murray, KY on the Jones Parker farm at the end of Sage Rd. in the Edgehill community
  • 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, R. Forsythe, R. Toor, and J. McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, thermic Aquic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Calloway
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calloway
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess/coastal plain
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: coastal plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: upland hardwoods
  • 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 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3555
    BE—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3556
    Bt1—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium faint and 15 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3557
    Bt2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3558
    Btg—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2) and pale red (2.5YR 6/2) silty clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent and 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3559
    2Btx—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and gray (10YR 5/1) clay loam; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY3560