IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bluegrass
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KY067001
  • User Pedon ID: 07KY067001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KY-067-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46380
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 38.0034180
  • Std. Longitude: -84.6281967
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a wheat field 800 feet northeast of barn; 0.3 miles south of intersectionh of farm lane and Military Pike; 0.4 mile southeast of intersection of James Lane and Military Pike; 0.9 mile southeast of Little Texas in western Fayette County; on Versailles, Kentucky USGS 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: MlA—Maury silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopesuBlmA—Bluegrass-Maury silt loams, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY067—Fayette
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY643—Fayette County Area, Part of Fayette County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38084-A6—Versailles, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Blanford, Bob Eigel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluegrass
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluegrass
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: thin fine-silty loess over clayey residuum weathered from phosphatic limestone
  • Landscape: karst upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, phosphatic
  • Geology: Grier Limestone member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/7/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—25

    25—244

    102—

    —25—

    —219—

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    283

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; moderate permeability; 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 30 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0256; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364313; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364313
    Bt2—56 to 102 centimeters (22.0 to 40.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 60 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds and 1 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0257; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364314; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364314
    2Bt3—102 to 193 centimeters (40.2 to 76.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 60 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364315; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364315
    2Bt4—193 to 221 centimeters (76.0 to 87.0 inches); variegated reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; 1 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) fine prominent irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 60 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364316; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364316
    2Bt5—221 to 244 centimeters (87.0 to 96.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 60 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 25 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 25 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364317; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364317