IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 78KY183016
  • User Pedon ID: 2016KY183003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 78KY-183-050
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46665
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 37.4556111
  • Std. Longitude: -86.8586944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 miles east of Hartford, 1 mile south of Kentucky Highway 69, on soil map sheet 32, east-west 1,680,000 feet and north-south 410,500 feet by Kentucky grid coordinates.
  • Map Unit: FmD—Fairpoint, Bethesda, and Morristown soils, 6 to 20 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY183—Ohio
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY183—Ohio County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37086-D8—Hartford, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2016
  • Classifier - Steve Neyhouse
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Myra
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy-skeletal coal extraction mine spoil derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Anthropogenic Feature: reclaimed land
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Tradewater And Caseyville Formations formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    0—18

    —18—
    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

    8

    —

    —

    152.4

    —

    1240

    —

    188

    14.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    KY0490

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume , 15 percent by weight nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 3-27-51 millimeter siltstone, calcareous fragments and 10 percent by volume , 15 percent by weight nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 3-27-51 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 10 percent by volume , 15 percent by weight nonflat subangular moderately coherent cemented 3-27-51 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2235; moist when described;
    C1—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) very gravelly silt loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 11 percent by volume , 15 percent by weight nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 25-38-51 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments and 12 percent by volume , 15 percent by weight nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 25-38-51 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 12 percent by volume , 15 percent by weight nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 25-38-51 millimeter siltstone, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2236; moist when described;
    C2—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; 10 percent by volume , 15 percent by weight nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 25-64-102 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments and 10 percent by volume , 15 percent by weight nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 25-64-102 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 10 percent by volume , 15 percent by weight nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 25-64-102 millimeter siltstone, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2237; moist when described;
    C3—69 to 127 centimeters (27.2 to 50.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) extremely gravelly silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 4 percent by volume , 5 percent by weight nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 25-70-127 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 4 percent by volume , 5 percent by weight nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 25-70-127 millimeter siltstone, calcareous fragments and 4 percent by volume , 5 percent by weight nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 25-70-127 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2238; moist when described;
    C4—127 to 178 centimeters (50.0 to 70.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) extremely cobbly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 20 percent by volume , 30 percent by weight nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 76-114-152 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments and 20 percent by volume , 30 percent by weight nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 76-114-152 millimeter shale, calcareous fragments and 20 percent by volume , 30 percent by weight nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 76-114-152 millimeter siltstone, calcareous fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # KY2239; moist when described;