IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mountview
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89KY-053-002
  • User Pedon ID: 1989KY053002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 89KY-053-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46783
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 36.6428604
  • Std. Longitude: -85.1016006
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 90 yards east of US Hwy 127; 0.5 mile S of KY Hwy 969.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY053—Clinton
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY053—Clinton County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: O. Whitaker, M. Davis, and J. Fehr
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountview
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountview
  • Classificaton Date - 5/9/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Silty mantle over residuum from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/9/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Grass and legume hay
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3041
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3042
    Bt2—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3043
    2Bt3—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3044
    2Bt4—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) silty clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3045
    2Bt5—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) silty clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3046
    2Bt6—152 to 191 centimeters (59.8 to 75.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments. Lab sample # KY3047