IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Garlin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY079 Garlin-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 90KY079 Garlin-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 91KY-079-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46824
  • 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: 37.5661278
  • Std. Longitude: -84.5512390
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 4 miles southeast of Lancaster on Kentucky Highway 39; 1600 feet southwest of Gilbert's Creek Church.
  • Map Unit: GaD2—Garlin-Shrouts complex, 12 to 25 percent slopes, eroded, rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY079—Garrard
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY618—Garrard and Lincoln Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37084-E5—Lancaster, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harry Evans and John Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Rendollic Eutrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Garlin (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brassfield
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from calcareous siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent siltstone, calcareous at 46cm
  • Geology: Drakes Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/2008 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

    indurated

    46 - 58

    58 - 83

    - 12 -

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—46

    46—

    58—

    —15—

    —31—

    —-

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    —

    320

    —

    225

    1324

    —

    182

    12.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY8486

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3285
    Bw—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct and 5 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3286
    Cr—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/4) bedrock; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 10.0, hellige-truog.
    R—58 to 83 centimeters (22.8 to 32.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.