IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09KY097002
  • User Pedon ID: 09KY097002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 09KY097002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KY-097-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46418
  • 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: 38.3288879
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2611084
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a hay field 1300 feet southwest 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: uLfC—Lowell-Faywood silt loams, 6 to 12 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 - 28 to 78 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • 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: Tanglewood Limestone 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 - 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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—140

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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

    8

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    250

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    1130

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    177

    12

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 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; 1 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 smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0417; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—28 to 84 centimeters (11.0 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 40 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; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0418; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467321; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467321
    Bt2—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); 95 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 5 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) 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; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0419; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467322; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467322
    Bt3—119 to 140 centimeters (46.9 to 55.1 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 20 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 60 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; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0420; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467323; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 467323
    C—140 to 213 centimeters (55.1 to 83.9 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 40 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; massive; 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; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY0421; moist when described; observed in push tube