IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Combs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 98KY111041
  • User Pedon ID: 98KY111041
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 98KY111041
  • User Site Association ID: 6082
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T98KY111-OtB-001
  • Transect Stop Number - 19
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 98KY-111-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47494
  • 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: 38.1025000
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8986111
  • 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 0.25 miles southwest of the intersection of State Highway 1230 and Moorman Road to the park parking lot, about 0.5 miles north of the northwest corner of the parking lot through two hay fields, about 600 feet west (across a steep bluff) toward the Ohio River, and about 50 feet east of the Ohio River
  • Map Unit: Co—Combs fine sandy loam, occasionally flooded
  • 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Combs
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Combs
  • Classificaton Date - 10/27/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in nov
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member of the Alluvium formation in the Quaternary group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/27/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    SOHA

    Sorghum halepense

    Johnsongrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—36

    36—196

    147—259

    —36—

    —160—

    —112—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    128

    —

    1128

    —

    202

    13.4

    24.4

    1.5

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    KY4954

    Louisville WSFO

    coop
    Ap—0 to 36 centimeters (0.0 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3957; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 35 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3958; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 35 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3959; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—86 to 147 centimeters (33.9 to 57.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 35 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3960; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw4—147 to 170 centimeters (57.9 to 66.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 25 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 25 percent medium faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 35 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3961; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw5—170 to 180 centimeters (66.9 to 70.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 25 percent medium prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay depletions throughout; 35 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3962; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw6—180 to 196 centimeters (70.9 to 77.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 25 percent medium prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 25 percent medium faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout and 25 percent iron-manganese masses; 35 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3963; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—196 to 211 centimeters (77.2 to 83.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 25 percent medium faint gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions throughout and 25 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 35 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3964; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—211 to 259 centimeters (83.1 to 102.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 25 percent medium prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 25 percent medium prominent gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions throughout; 35 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY3965; moist when described; observed in pit, small