IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 78KY183051
  • User Pedon ID: 78KY183051
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 78KY-183-051
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46666
  • 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: 37.3127778
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9042500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 10 miles south of Beaver Dam, 2 miles north of Cool Springs, 1/2 mile west of KY 369 on Homestead Mine.
  • Map Unit: BfF—Bethesda, Fairpoint, and Morristown soils, 20 to 70 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-C8—Paradise, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, calcareous, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/11/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Myra
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - barren land
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • 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—25

    —25—
    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

    —

    —

    —

    137.2

    —

    1240

    —

    188

    14.1

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    KY0490

    Beaver Dam

    coop
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) shaly silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter coal fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 17 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-76 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2240
    C1—18 to 69 centimeters (7.1 to 27.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) very channery silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent by volume flat 2-76-152 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat 2-76-152 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2241
    C2—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) channery silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 18 percent by volume flat 2-76-152 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 32 percent by volume flat 2-76-152 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2242
    C3—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) stony silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; 5 percent by volume 25-260-500 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 25-260-500 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 25-260-500 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 25-260-500 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # KY2243