LOCATION NOLIN KY+IL IN MD OH PA TN VA WVEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Dystric Fluventic Eutrudepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Nolin silt loam--pasture/hay land. (Colors are for moist soil.)
Ap--0 to 12 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; many fine roots; slightly acid (pH 6.5); clear wavy boundary. (6 to 12 inches thick)
Bw1--12 to 25 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots, one coarse root; few, medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), soft irregular masses of weathered siltstone; few fine fragments of charcoal; neutral (pH 7.0); gradual smooth boundary. (10 to 30 inches thick)
Bw2--25 to 35 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; few to common medium and coarse faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), soft irregular masses of weathered siltstone; slightly acid (pH 6.5); gradual smooth boundary. (0 to 30 inches thick)
Bw3--35 to 44 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine and coarse roots; few medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), soft irregular masses of weathered siltstone; neutral (pH 7.0); gradual wavy boundary (0 to 15 inches)
Bw4-- 44 to 74 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; few fine and coarse roots; few fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), soft irregular masses of weathered siltstone; neutral (pH 7.0); clear wavy boundary. (0 to 30 inches thick)
C-- 74 to 80 inches; brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; friable and firm; few fine roots; few faint silt coatings in worn holes; neutral (pH 7.0).
TYPE LOCATION: Bath County, Kentucky; in a hay field 0.4 mile southeast of Kentucky Highway 11 bridge at Sherburne, Kentucky, 650 feet ENE of Kentucky Highway 1325, 375 feet southeast of the intersection of Licking River and Flat Creek, 100 feet west of Flat Creek. USGS Sherburne Quadrangle (LAT 38/16/42N, LONG 83/48/01W).
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness is 40 or more inches. Thickness of alluvial deposits ranges from 60 inches to many feet. Coarse fragments, mostly rounded pebbles, ranges from none to about 5 percent in the A and Bw horizon and from 0 to 35 percent in the C horizon. Redoximorphic features, if present, are below 72 inches. Reaction is moderately acid to moderately alkaline, but some pedons are strongly acid in the lower part of the Bw and C horizon. Some pedons have buried A or B horizons below a depth of 20 inches.
The Ap horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 or 3. Texture is loam, silt loam, or silty clay loam.
The Bw horizon has hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 3 to 6. Texture is silt loam or silty clay loam.
The C horizon has hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 to 6. Texture is silty clay loam, silt loam, loam, fine sandy loam, or sandy loam, the range also includes stratified layers of these or their gravelly or cobbly analogs.
COMPETING SERIES: These are Jamesfin, Kinnick, Moshannon, and Ray series in the same family. Jamesfin soils are close competitors and better differentiation is needed between these two series. Kinnick soils have redox depletions indicative of a seasonal water table between depths of 3 to 6 feet. Moshannon soils have B horizons with hues redder than 7.5YR, otherwise they are very close competitors. Ray soils have sola less than 40 inches thick and have evidence of stratification above 40 inches.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: The Nolin soils are on nearly level flood plains, in concave depressions, or on natural levees of major rivers and streams. The soils formed in alluvium derived from limestone, sandstone, siltstone, shale, and loess. Near the type location the mean annual temperature is 48 to 57 degrees F., and the mean annual precipitation is 38 to 50 inches.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the competing Kinnick soils and Lindside, Boonesboro, Dunning, Grigsby, Melvin, Newark, Sensabaugh, and Skidmore series on the flood plains; the Allegheny, Elk, and Wheeling series on the stream terraces; and the Duffield, Frankstown, Hagerstown, Baxter, Caneyville, Fredonia, and Penlaw series on uplands. Lindside soils are moderately well drained and have low chroma redoximorphic features within 24 inches. Boonesboro soils have bedrock at depths of 20 to 40 inches. Dunning, Melvin, and Newark soils have low chroma redoximorphic features at or within 20 inches of the surface. Grigsby soils have coarse-loamy control sections. Sensabaugh soils have fine-loamy control sections. Skidmore soils are in a loamy-skeletal particle size class. The remaining associated soils are on stream terraces or on uplands and have argillic horizons.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained. The surface runoff is negligible to low on nearly level slopes and ranges to rapid on steeper banks of streams and rivers. Permeability is moderate. Depth to a seasonal water table is greater than 6 feet. The soil is subject to rare to frequent flooding or ponding in depressions for variable duration.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas are used for growing corn, tobacco, soybeans, and hay. Forested areas are bottomland hardwoods, such as river birch, yellow-poplar, sycamore, elm, willow, boxelder, oak, hickory, and red maple. Many stream banks and narrow flood plains consist of native canebrakes.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: In areas of mixed limestones and siltstones, sandstones, shales, and loess in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia. The series is of large extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Grayson County, Kentucky, 1969.
REMARKS: Soils in the Nolin series were formerly included with the Huntington series.
Diagnostic horizons recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon - 0 to 12 inches. (Ap)
Cambic horizon - 12 to 74 inches (Bw)