IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McAfee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KY167 McAfee-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 08KY167 McAfee-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KY-167-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46405
  • 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: 37.8480568
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8533325
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in a hay field 750 feet southwest of the intersection of Hwy. 127 and Talmage-Mayo Road, 6 miles north of Harrodsburg; USGS Harrodsburg, Kentucky USGS 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle
  • Map Unit: McC—McAfee silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY167—Mercer
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY606—Boyle and Mercer Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37084-G7—Harrodsburg, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Blanford, Bob Eigel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - McAfee (flagged as OSD)
  • 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 - 9/29/2008
  • 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: Sulphur Well member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/2008 (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 -

    —
    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—

    —18—

    —63—

    —-
    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

    8

    —

    —

    262

    —

    1161

    —

    199

    13.9

    24.1

    3

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    152214

    Dix Dam

    coop
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0354; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 2.0 fine roots between peds; 50 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0355; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 430252; continuous - phpvsfiid 430252
    Bt2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 0.2 fine roots between peds; 70 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0356; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 430253; continuous - phpvsfiid 430253
    Bt3—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 0.2 fine roots between peds; 70 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules; 5 percent by volume nonflat angular indurated 2-74-150 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0357; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 430255; continuous - phpvsfiid 430255
    R—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in push tube