IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09KY113 Lowell-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 09KY113 Lowell-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KY-113-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46425
  • 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: 37.9416656
  • Std. Longitude: -84.6127777
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a hay field 450 feet north of the house on Springmint Farm; 0.5 miles west of Hwy. 68; 1.2 miles north of the Hwy. 68 and Hwy. 169 intersection; and 5 miles northwest of Nicholasville; Nicholasville USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: uLbiB—Lowell-Bluegrass silt loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY113—Jessamine
  • 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: 37084-H5—Nicholasville, 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 - Lowell (flagged as OSD)
  • 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 - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2009
  • 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 and shale at 135cm
  • Geology: Brannon Limestone member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/23/2009 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    135 - 160

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—104

    135—

    —20—

    —84—

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    305

    —

    1168

    —

    192

    12.9

    23.6

    1.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    154746

    Lexington WSO AP

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; moderate permeability; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0439; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, silt coats on surfaces along pores and 5 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, silt coats on surfaces along root channels and 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; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0440; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439314; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 474157; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 474158; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439314; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 474157; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 474158
    Bt2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; slow permeability; 0.8 fine roots between peds; 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 and 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0441; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439315; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439315
    Bt3—58 to 104 centimeters (22.8 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 5 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium distinct irregular and 5 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium prominent irregular and 5 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium faint irregular mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very firm; slow permeability; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 60 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0442; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439316; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439316
    BC—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; 5 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium prominent irregular and 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium faint irregular and 5 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) medium distinct irregular mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; slow permeability; 0.2 fine roots between peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent medium faint spherical moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules in matrix; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0443; moist when described; observed in push tube
    R—135 to 160 centimeters (53.1 to 63.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY0444; observed in push tube