IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY-135-014
  • User Pedon ID: 2016KY135003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 90KY-135-014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 90KY-135-014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46818
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 38.6958809
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5568314
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lewis County, KY; Atlas sheet 3A; about 3.1 miles northwest of the junction of KY-57 and KY-8 at Concord, about 1,720 feet north of KY-8, about 240 feet west of farm road, and about 300 feet north of the CSX railroad tracks. X: 2,194,000 feet, Y: 434,500 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY135—Lewis
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY135—Lewis County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs and D. Dotson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otwood
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2015
  • Classifier - Domenech, Angel
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Otwell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/1990
  • Classifier - S. Jacobs and D. Dotson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Mixed alluvium of the Ohio River floodplain, Quaternary Geologic System
  • Landform: terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/26/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • 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

    DAGL

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    74 - 165

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—23

    38—165

    74—165

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    —127—

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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
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    4

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-33-64 millimeter quartz fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3249
    BA—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3250
    Bt1—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3251
    Bt2—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few (0.5) fine roots; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine faint irregular weakly coherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3252
    Btx1—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; strong coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 1 percent medium faint cylindrical moderately coherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) manganese coatings in matrix and 15 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 30 percent medium distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 30 percent coarse distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 30 percent medium faint irregular weakly coherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3253
    Btx2—102 to 165 centimeters (40.2 to 65.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; strong very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 10 percent medium distinct cylindrical moderately coherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) manganese coatings in matrix and 15 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 30 percent medium faint irregular weakly coherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 30 percent coarse faint irregular weakly coherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 30 percent coarse faint irregular weakly coherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 30 percent medium faint irregular weakly coherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # KY3254