IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Henry
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94KY-035-007
  • User Pedon ID: 94KY-035-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KY-035-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47428
  • Print Date: 2/18/2026

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: North of Murray, KY and South of Almo Heights on the Howell Bucy farm.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY035—Calloway
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY610—Calloway and Marshall Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A.D. Karathanasis, S. Sykes, and R. Forsythe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, active, thermic Fragic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Henry
  • PSC - 53 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Henry
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landform: terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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
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    Setting and Climate
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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3573
    A2—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3574
    E—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3575
    Btg1—53 to 97 centimeters (20.9 to 38.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct and 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3576
    Btg2—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) medium prominent and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct and 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3577
    Btx—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silt loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse prominent and 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium prominent and 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) coarse prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; fragments. Lab sample # KY3578