IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bluegrass
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KY239001
  • User Pedon ID: 07KY239001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KY-239-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46386
  • 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: 38.1021652
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7542496
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a pasture field (pen #2) 500 feet east of the beef barn on the University of Kentucky Agricultural Research Farm (Pin Oak Farm); 0.4 miles east of U.S. highway 60; and 3 miles northwest of Versailles. Tyrone USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: MlB—Maury silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopesuBlmB—Bluegrass-Maury silt loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY239—Woodford
  • 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: 38084-A7—Tyrone, 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 - 30 to 80 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 - 6/5/2007
  • 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 Position: upper third
  • 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: Devil's Hollow member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/5/2007 (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—30

    30—132

    97—

    —30—

    —102—

    —-

    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

    2

    271.3

    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 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 acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt 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; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0283; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364136; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364136
    Bt2—53 to 97 centimeters (20.9 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 40 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries between peds and 5 percent medium 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. Lab sample # KY0284; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364137; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364137
    2Bt3—97 to 132 centimeters (38.2 to 52.0 inches); variegated yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; 1 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) medium prominent irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 60 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries between peds and 5 percent medium 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 364138; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364138
    2BC—132 to 183 centimeters (52.0 to 72.0 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay; 10 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) medium prominent irregular mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 10 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries between peds 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 364139; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 364139
    2C1—183 to 206 centimeters (72.0 to 81.1 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay; 40 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) medium prominent irregular mottles; massive; very firm; moderately slow permeability; 5 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries between peds 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; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in push tube
    2C2—206 to 244 centimeters (81.1 to 96.1 inches); variegated yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; 10 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) medium prominent irregular mottles; massive; very firm; moderately slow permeability; 15 percent medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries between peds and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in push tube