IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 98KY111 Otwood-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 98KY111 Otwood-OSD
  • User Site Association ID: 6082
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T98KY111-OtB-001
  • Transect Stop Number - 13
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 00KY-111-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47489
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 38.1008339
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8949966
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in a hay field about 900 feet south of the intersection of State Highway 1934 and State Highway 1230 to the entrance of the Farnsley- Moremen Riverside Landing Park, about 900 feet northwest of the intersection of State Highway 1230 and Moorman Road, about 1,800 feet northwest of Moorman Road into a hay field, and about 1,200 feet east of the Ohio River
  • Map Unit: OtB—Otwood silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY111—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY111—Jefferson County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-A8—Kosmosdale, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Blanford, P. Scott Aldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otwood (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Otwell
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in nov
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Outwash Alluvium member of the Outwash Alluvium formation in the Quaternary group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    69 - 117

    - 48 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    fragipan

    0—25

    25—211

    56—231

    69—117

    —25—

    —86—

    —175—

    —48—
    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

    4

    —

    —

    134

    —

    1128

    —

    202

    13.4

    24.4

    1.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY4954

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0052; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0053; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, and black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds and 1 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0054; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btx1—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; 10 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, and gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine and medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 1 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent fine and medium dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, and black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0055; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btx2—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 35 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 55 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings on faces of peds and 25 percent medium faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0056; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btx3—107 to 117 centimeters (42.1 to 46.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 35 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 55 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 25 percent medium faint reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0057; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B't1—117 to 163 centimeters (46.1 to 64.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0058; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B't2—163 to 178 centimeters (64.2 to 70.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent medium prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0059; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B't3—178 to 211 centimeters (70.1 to 83.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent medium prominent gray (2.5Y 5/1), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0060; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—211 to 221 centimeters (83.1 to 87.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; structureless massive; friable; 10 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0061; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—221 to 231 centimeters (87.0 to 90.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; structureless massive; friable; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; 10 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY0062; moist when described; observed in pit, small