IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nicholson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 54KY-001-003
  • User Pedon ID: 54KY-001-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 54KY-001-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46436
  • Print Date: 1/9/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Mrs. J.T. Mercer farm; approximately 1.6 miles SW of Milltown; Pint N of Milltown Road and E of gravel road; 16 yards NE of oak tree in fork of road.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY001—Adair
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY001—Adair County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E.V. Huffman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholson
  • PSC - 38 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholson
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent chert at 97cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: hardwood forest
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    bedrock, lithic

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    58 - 76

    97 -

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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
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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 10 percent organic stains; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0504
    E—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; weak very fine angular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2 percent by volume angular 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0505
    BE—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent gray (10YR 6/1) silt coats on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0506
    Bt—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; silt loam, silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 8 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0507
    Btx—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silty clay loam; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 8 percent by volume chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # KY0508
    C—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; firm; 8 percent by volume angular 50-?-150 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # KY0509
    R—97 centimeters (38.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.