IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berea
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990KY137018
  • User Pedon ID: 1990KY137018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990KY137018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0667
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62600
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.4686127
  • Std. Longitude: -84.5425034
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 8 miles SE of Stanford on US 150; 2000 feet E of W. Whitley house; 1200 feet E of Sportsman hill
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY137—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Sobecki, J. Robbins, H. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berea
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: pediment
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FESTU

    Festuca

    fescue

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—64

    74—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

    2

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    303

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    127

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03952. many fine roots throughout
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats in root channels and/or pores; 2 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03953. Rock fragments are Black Shale; Siltstone; and parts of small Geodes; common coats surface features in root channels and/or pores; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1170001; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1170001
    Bt2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03954. Few small Geodes and Siltstone rock fragments in horizon; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1170002; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1170002
    Bt3—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; 11 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) medium distinct and 11 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03955. rock fragments are Siltstone and Black Shale; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common medium distinct 2.5Y66 mottles; common medium distinct 2.5Y72 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1170003; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1170003
    2C r—64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); black (N 2/0) weathered bedrock; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 90P03956. weathered Black Shale. (2.5YR) weathering rind on rock fragments. 80% of pedon has Cr horizon
    2R—74 to 84 centimeters (29.1 to 33.1 inches); black (N 2/0) weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 90P03957. Black hard Fissle Shale