IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09KY097001
  • User Pedon ID: 09KY097001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 09KY097001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KY-097-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46417
  • Print Date: 9/7/2024

    • 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: 38.3311119
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2569427
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a crop field 130 feet northeast of Cook Road; 1.5 miles southwest of intersection of Old Lair Road and Cook Road; 5.25 miles southeast of Cynthiana, KY; Shawhan USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: uLsoB—Lowell-Sandview silt loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY097—Harrison
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY097—Harrison County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38084-C3—Shawhan, 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 - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loradale
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/2009
  • 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
  • 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: 8/25/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    NICOT

    ZEMA

    Nicotiana

    Zea mays

    tobacco

    corn

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—152

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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

    3

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    249

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    1130

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    177

    12

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0412; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 48 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and 2 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0413; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467317; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467317
    Bt2—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); 75 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 60 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 15 percent medium prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0414; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467318; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467318
    Bt3—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); 55 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 25 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; slow permeability; 60 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 8 percent medium prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0415; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467319; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467319
    C—152 to 254 centimeters (59.8 to 100.0 inches); 60 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; massive; very firm; slow permeability; 2 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 8 percent medium prominent irregular very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY0416; moist when described; observed in push tube