IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bluegrass
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KY113003
  • User Pedon ID: 07KY113003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KY-113-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46389
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.9630547
  • Std. Longitude: -84.5925293
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in a pasture field, 660 feet northeast of barn, 1,850 feet east of U.S. Hwy 68, 0.7 miles south of the intersection of KY Hwy. 1980 (Brannon Road) and U.S. Hwy 68, 5.75 miles northwest of Nicholasville, KY; Nicholasville, 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: KY113—Jessamine
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY624—Jessamine and Woodford Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37084-H5—Nicholasville, 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 - 7/25/2007
  • 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: Tanglewood Limestone member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/2007 (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—23

    23—218

    74—

    —23—

    —195—

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    312

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid 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; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0277; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367079; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367079
    Bt2—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 40 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; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0278; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367080; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367080
    2Bt3—76 to 163 centimeters (29.9 to 64.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 60 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; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 367081; continuous - phpvsfiid 367081
    2Bt4—163 to 213 centimeters (64.2 to 83.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 60 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; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367082; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367082
    2BC—213 to 254 centimeters (83.9 to 100.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; moderately slow permeability; 45 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; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367083; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 367083