IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Egam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KY-011-003
  • User Pedon ID: 99KY-011-003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 99KY-011-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KY-011-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47499
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Bath County, KY; about 2.0 miles south of Owingsville in Bath County, about 0.7 mile SE of KY Hwy 36 bridge over Slate Creek; about 400 feet west of barn; and about 320 feet east of Slate Creek.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY011—Bath
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY011—Bath County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-A6—Olympia, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Hines
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Egam
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Egam
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/29/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    LOAR10

    SOHA

    ZEMA

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Sorghum halepense

    Zea mays

    tall fescue

    Johnsongrass

    corn

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    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
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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume rounded chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4007
    Bw1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt coats on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume rounded chert fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4008
    Bw2—46 to 107 centimeters (18.1 to 42.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt coats on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume rounded chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY4009
    BC—107 to 124 centimeters (42.1 to 48.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume rounded chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4010
    C—124 to 218 centimeters (48.8 to 85.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay; structureless massive; very firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY4011