IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dickson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 54KY-227-002
  • User Pedon ID: 54KY-227-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 54KY-227-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 54KY-227-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46444
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Dr. V. Graham's farm; located approximately 8 miles S of Bowling Green, KY. SCS map KY-SCD-48, Photo CN-49(10).
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY227—Warren
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY227—Warren County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, thermic Glossic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dickson
  • PSC - 15 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dickson
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/1954 (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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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    64 - 94

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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

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0551
    Bt—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0552
    B/Ex—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint and 15 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0553
    Btx—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and gray (10YR 5/1) and reddish brown (5YR 5/3) silty clay loam; strong coarse angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0554
    2Bt—94 to 198 centimeters (37.0 to 78.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY0555