IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Salvisa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KY067007
  • User Pedon ID: 08KY067007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KY-067-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46399
  • 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: 37.8852768
  • Std. Longitude: -84.4002762
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in a grown up field 1,050 feet west/southwest of parking lot at Raven Run Wildlife Preserve, 500 feet north of Jacks Creek Pike, about 4.5 miles southeast of Coletown; USGS Coletown, Kentucky USGS 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle
  • Map Unit: ScB2—Salvisa silty clay loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • 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: 37084-H4—Coletown, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Blanford, Bob Eigel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, vermiculitic, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Salvisa
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Salvisa
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from phosphatic limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: karst 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 at 86cm
  • Geology: Brannon member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ap

    0

    20

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ap

    0

    20

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ap

    0

    20

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    4

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    86 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—86

    86—96

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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

    3

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    290

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0329; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 50 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct irregular and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium distinct irregular mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 2.0 fine roots between peds; 50 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent cylindrical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese nodules and 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented iron-manganese masses; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0330; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 431608; continuous - phpvsfiid 431608
    Bt2—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); 60 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct irregular and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium distinct irregular mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; 0.2 fine roots between peds; 70 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented iron-manganese masses and 2 percent fine prominent cylindrical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese nodules; 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-74-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0331; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 431609; continuous - phpvsfiid 431609
    R—86 to 96 centimeters (33.9 to 37.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in push tube