IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Faywood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KY239 Faywood-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 08KY239 Faywood-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KY-239-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46407
  • 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: 38.0066681
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7605591
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a pasture/hay field 250 feet north of farm house; 1,250 feet east of junction of McCormick Ferry Road and Scott's Ferry Road; about 3.5 miles southwest of Versailles.
  • Map Unit: FdC—Faywood silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY239—Woodford
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, 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, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Faywood (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Faywood
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2008
  • 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: 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: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone and shale at 76cm
  • Geology: Grier Limestone member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/19/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    76 - 101

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—76

    76—

    —15—

    —61—

    —-
    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

    10

    —

    —

    257.6

    —

    1168

    —

    192

    12.9

    23.6

    1.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    154746

    Lexington WSO AP

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; moderate permeability; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0365; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0366; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 430431; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 430431
    Bt2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; 5 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct and 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint and 5 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 30 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0367; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 430433; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 430433
    R—76 to 101 centimeters (29.9 to 39.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in push tube