IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clifty
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 67KY085004
  • User Pedon ID: 67KY085004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 67KY085004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 67KY-085-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46518
  • 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: 37.3556667
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3970556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.5 miles southwest of Shrewsbury, 650 yards south of Kentucky Highway 411, 10 feet west of Sunfish Creek. Photo AEF-4AA-020, 1960.
  • Map Unit: Ct—Clifty gravelly silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY085—Grayson
  • 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: KY085—Grayson County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37086-C4—Ready, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Orville Whitaker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Fluventic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clifty
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pope
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed coarse-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in jan
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 36
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    LESPE

    LOAR10

    Lespedeza

    Lolium arundinaceum

    lespedeza

    tall fescue

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—20

    20—152

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    —132—
    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

    1

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    161.5

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    1243

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    178

    13.1

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    KY4703

    Leitchfield 2 N

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots; 25 percent by volume nonflat 20-48-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1195; moist when described;
    Bw1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 30 percent by volume nonflat 20-48-76 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1196; moist when described;
    Bw2—56 to 152 centimeters (22.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 30 percent by volume nonflat 20-48-76 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # KY1197; moist when described;