IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09KY049004
  • User Pedon ID: 09KY049004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 09KY049004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KY-049-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46415
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 38.0402794
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2099991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a hay/pasture field 400 feet west of Van Meter Road; 1.875 miles north of I-64; 3 miles northwest of Winchester, KY; Austerlitz USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: uLbiB—Lowell-Bluegrass silt loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY049—Clark
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY049—Clark County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38084-A2—Austerlitz, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Aldridge, Bob Eigel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic 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 - Lowell
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hampshire
  • Classificaton Date - 8/24/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from phosphatic limestone
  • Landscape: karst upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • 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, phosphatic at 150cm
  • Geology: Millersburg member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/24/2009 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAGL

    TRPR2

    Dactylis glomerata

    Trifolium pratense

    orchardgrass

    red clover

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    150 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    38—119

    150—

    —20—

    —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

    4

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    289

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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; 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0402; moist when described; observed in push tube
    BA—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0403; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 40 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, 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; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0404; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467312; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467312
    Bt2—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); 95 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 60 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0405; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467313; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467313
    Bt3—81 to 119 centimeters (31.9 to 46.9 inches); 85 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 5 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; slow permeability; 0.2 fine roots between peds; 60 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0406; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467314; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467314
    C—119 to 150 centimeters (46.9 to 59.1 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) clay; massive; very firm; slow permeability; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-150-250 millimeter limestone, phosphatic fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0407; moist when described; observed in push tube
    R—150 centimeters (59.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in push tube