IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bluegrass
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KY239001
  • User Pedon ID: 08KY239001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KY-239-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46408
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.0981674
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7413864
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in a pasture field 0.75 miles north of maintenance barn on UK Pin Oak Research Farm, 2.0 miles north of the intersection of U.S. Hwy. 60 & 62, 3.0 miles north of Versailles, KY. 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 Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluegrass
  • PSC - 20 to 70 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 - 3/24/2008
  • 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: Granular Phosphatic Limestone member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/24/2008 (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—213

    51—

    —30—

    —183—

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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

    2

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    265.8

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; moderate permeability; 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0358; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0359; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 0.1 fine roots between peds; 40 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 with sharp boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0360; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 397715; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 397715
    2Bt3—51 to 99 centimeters (20.1 to 39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; moderately slow permeability; 0.1 fine roots between peds; 45 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0361; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 397716; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 397716
    2Bt4—99 to 150 centimeters (39.0 to 59.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; moderately slow permeability; 45 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 3 percent medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries between peds and 3 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds and 3 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries between peds and 3 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0362; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 397717; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 397717
    2Bt5—150 to 213 centimeters (59.1 to 83.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; moderately slow permeability; 70 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 6 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries between peds and 6 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds and 6 percent medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries between peds and 6 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0363; moist when described; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 397718; continuous - phpvsfiid 397718
    2BC—213 to 254 centimeters (83.9 to 100.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium prominent irregular mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; moderately slow permeability; 10 percent medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries between peds and 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds and 10 percent coarse prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries between peds and 10 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with sharp boundaries between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY0364; moist when described; observed in push tube