IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ginat
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016KY145001
  • User Pedon ID: S2016KY145001
  • User Site Association ID: Region 7 FY-16 NWCA Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0130
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87572
  • 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: 37.0067778
  • Std. Longitude: -88.5721250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the intersection of State Highway 450 (Oaks Road) and Hunter Lane, 1,450 feet west along Hunter Lane (blacktop ends), then 900 feet west along vehicle path beside lake, and 200 feet south into woods.
  • Map Unit: uGnA—Ginat silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY145—McCracken
  • MLRA: 134—Southern Mississippi Valley Loess
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-MIL—Milan, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY602—Ballard and McCracken Counties, Kentucky
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Craig Harris, Matt McCauley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Endoaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Forest Overstory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Understory Veg. Type - tree
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Dominant - perennial forbs or herbaceous
  • Forest Groundcover Veg. Type Secondary - perennial grass
  • Hydric: yes


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium over clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: Ohio River river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: J. Craig Harris
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 27
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    endosaturation

    reduced matrix

    redox concentrations

    0—10

    10—203

    10—203

    10—203

    10—203

    10—203

    —10—

    —193—

    —193—

    —193—

    —193—

    —193—

    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

    103.6

    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silt loam; strong fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately few medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 22 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N00756; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—10 to 32 centimeters (3.9 to 12.6 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) broken face silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very coarse roots throughout and many medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 10 percent prominent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N00757; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg2—32 to 61 centimeters (12.6 to 24.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) broken face silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very coarse roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 21 percent prominent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses in matrix and 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N00758; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg3—61 to 80 centimeters (24.0 to 31.5 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) broken face silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; 25 percent prominent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses in matrix and 11 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 22 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N00759; very moist when described; observed in pit, small. Cornell pH Test Kit, Bromcresol Green (pH 3.8 to 5.2) indicated pH of <5
    Btg4—80 to 110 centimeters (31.5 to 43.3 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face silty clay; 5 percent sand; 43 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately few fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses in matrix and 22 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 22 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N00760; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg5—110 to 200 centimeters (43.3 to 78.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face silty clay; 6 percent sand; 40 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses in matrix and 15 percent coarse prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 21 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter. Lab sample # 17N00761, 17N00762; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 2Btg5a 110-160cm 5.3 2Btg5b 160-203cm 5.6