IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mountview
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73KY-221-010
  • User Pedon ID: 1973KY221010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 73KY-221-010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-221-010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46614
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: about 11.5 miles SE of Cadiz; 1,000 feet S of KY Hwy 287; 3 miles NW of junction of KY 287 and 164 at Pee Dee; and 1 mile E of Gauging Station at the confluence of Casey Creek and Little River.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY221—Trigg
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY629—Lyon and Trigg Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountview
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountview
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1913
    Bt1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1914
    Bt2—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1915
    2Bt3—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) very channery silty clay loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats and 30 percent clay films; 65 percent by volume chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1916
    2Bt4—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats and 50 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1917
    2Bt5—109 to 130 centimeters (42.9 to 51.2 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and weak red (2.5YR 4/2) clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1918
    2Bt6—130 to 147 centimeters (51.2 to 57.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) channery clay loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 20 percent by volume chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1919
    2Bt7—147 to 175 centimeters (57.9 to 68.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) very channery silty clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 1 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 50 percent clay films; 65 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1920
    2Bt8—175 to 239 centimeters (68.9 to 94.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) channery clay; 15 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium distinct and 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 50 percent clay films; 40 percent by volume chert fragments. Lab sample # KY1921