IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bedford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 55KY-009-001
  • User Pedon ID: 55KY-009-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 55KY-009-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 55KY-009-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46449
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Mike Mansfield farm; Route #1; 4 miles W of Glasgow on old Bowling Green Road; photo no. and date: KY-SCD-76 ALK-34-199.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY009—Barren
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY009—Barren County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.H. Bailey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess over residuum of low grade cherty limestone (Warsaw formation)
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/1955 (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

    LESPE

    TRPR2

    Lespedeza

    Trifolium pratense

    lespedeza

    red clover

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    61 - 104

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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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0578
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0579
    Bt2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0580
    Bt3—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 roots; 10 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films; 2 percent by volume 2-?-25 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0581
    Btx1—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; brittle; 10 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0582
    Btx2—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; brittle; 30 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0583
    2Bt1—104 to 124 centimeters (40.9 to 48.8 inches); 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume 2-?-25 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0584
    2Bt2—124 to 168 centimeters (48.8 to 66.1 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0585
    2Bt3—168 to 254 centimeters (66.1 to 100.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; weak medium angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # KY0586