IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990KY137015
  • User Pedon ID: 1990KY137015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0664
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62597
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.4272232
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7794418
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 9.9 miles SW of Stanford on KY 198; 200 feet E of KY 198; 2950 feet NE of meeting house knob
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY137—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Fehr, K. Scott, M. Davis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1990 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    18—66

    89—0

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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

    15

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    311

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    180

    127

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03938. fragments are Black Shale; many fine roots throughout
    Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03939. fragments are Black Shale; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common fine and medium roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169993; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169993
    Bt2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent prominent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03940. fragment are Black Shale. concretions are soft dark Brown; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 1169994; continuous - phpvsfiid 1169994
    Bt3—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) channery silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent prominent , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 30 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03941. rock fragments are Black Shale. concretions are soft, dark Brown; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 1169995; continuous - phpvsfiid 1169995
    C—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and brown (7.5YR 5/4) very channery silty clay; massive, and platy; very firm; 60 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03942. rock fragments are Black Shale. Horizon has relict Platy structure
    R—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); black (N 2/0) unweathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 90P03943. weathered and unweathered Black Shale with Lithic contact throughout pedon at 89 cm