IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bluegrass
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KY067004
  • User Pedon ID: 07KY067004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KY-067-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46382
  • 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: 38.0131683
  • Std. Longitude: -84.6291122
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a pasture field 1500 feet north of Military Pike; 0.4 mile northeast of intersection of James Lane and Military Pike; 0.8 mile east 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 - 20 to 70 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 - 6/11/2007
  • 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: Granular Phosphatic Limestone member of the Cynthiana formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/11/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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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    290

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 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; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 74 centimeters (7.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 30 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 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; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0266, KY0267; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364543; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364543
    Bt2—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 45 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds and 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; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364544; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364544
    2Bt3—107 to 142 centimeters (42.1 to 55.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 45 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; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364545; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364545
    2Bt4—142 to 180 centimeters (55.9 to 70.9 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 20 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) medium prominent irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 45 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; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364546; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364546
    2BC—180 to 244 centimeters (70.9 to 96.1 inches); variegated yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; 20 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) coarse prominent irregular mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 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 and 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-20-75 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364547; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364547