IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McAfee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KY067008
  • User Pedon ID: 08KY067008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KY-067-008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46400
  • 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: 37.9069443
  • Std. Longitude: -84.3930588
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in a hay field on a farm adjacent to the Raven Run Nature Preserve (Northern Tract) 650 feet south/southeast of barn, 0.5 miles west of Cedar Creek Lane, 3.25 miles south/southwest of Athens; USGS Coletown, Kentucky USGS 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle
  • Map Unit: MrD2—McAfee very rocky silty clay loam, 6 to 20 percent slopes, eroded (mcafee-Rock outcrop complex)
  • 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, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • 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 - McAfee
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McAfee
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/2008
  • 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • 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 81cm
  • Geology: Grier And Curdsville Limestone member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/2008 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    81 -

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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—18

    18—81

    81—

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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

    15

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    290

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-74-150 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0332; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 fine roots between peds; 50 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent cylindrical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese nodules; 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-74-150 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0333; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 427625; continuous - phpvsfiid 427625
    Bt2—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silty clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular 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 cylindrical moderately coherent cemented iron-manganese nodules; 10 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-74-150 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0334; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 427626; continuous - phpvsfiid 427626
    R—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in push tube