IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otway
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959KY111001
  • User Pedon ID: S1959KY111001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959KY111001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A4893
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41582
  • 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: 38.0958328
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5583344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 3/4 mile up Old Mans Run Creek from Floyds Creek on southern slope of creek. Photo AFW-2R-97, 1956.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY111—Jefferson
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY111—Jefferson County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: William H. Zimmerman and James C. Ross
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Otway
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AFW-2R-97
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    CARYA

    JUGLA

    Carya

    Juglans

    hybrid hickory

    walnut

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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

    22

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    180

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    AP—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) flaggy silty clay loam; moderate and strong fine granular, and weak medium angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 1 percent fine dark brown (10YR 3/3) dark concretions; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37097
    B3—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate and strong fine angular blocky structure; very firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37098
    B21—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay, clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A37099
    B22—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; weak medium angular blocky, and massive; very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 roots; fragments irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A37100
    C1—58 to 94 centimeters (22.8 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 21 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A37101
    C2—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay, clay; massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) dark concretions and 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; 1 percent worm casts; fragments. Lab sample # 40A37102
    R—109 centimeters (42.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A37103