IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Garmon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 75KY207 Garmon-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 75KY207 Garmon-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 75KY-207-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46620
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 37.0005836
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9118576
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 11.9 miles southeast of Nancy, Kentucky, 1.4 miles northwest of intersection of KY Highway 196 and Wolf Creek Rd, 75 feet east of Wolf Creek Rd, in woods
  • Map Unit: GCF—Garmon-Caneyville association, very steep
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY207—Russell
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY207—Russell County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37084-A8—Eli, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: James Fehr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Garmon (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Garmon
  • Classificaton Date - 1/12/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy residuum weathered from siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated siltstone, unspecified at 66cm
  • Geology: Fort Payne Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/12/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    66 - 91

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—66

    66—

    —5—

    —61—

    —-
    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

    40

    —

    —

    277.4

    —

    225

    1340

    —

    193

    13.4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY4208

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1970
    Bw1—5 to 30 centimeters (2.0 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1971
    Bw2—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 17 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 17 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1972
    R—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1973