IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pricetown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 55KY-217-001
  • User Pedon ID: 55KY-217-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 55KY-217-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46464
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Campbellsville Soil Experiment Field East boundary plot 16, series 800; 66 yards from N fence and 91 yards from S fence.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY217—Taylor
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY620—Green and Taylor Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.B. Bryan and H.H. Bailey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pricetown
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pricetown
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, cherty at 229cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Grass
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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
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    bedrock, lithic

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0721
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 10.0 roots; 15 percent worm casts; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0722
    Bt2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 roots; 10 percent clay films; 1 percent worm casts; 2 percent by volume 25-?-50 millimeter chert fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0723
    2Bt3—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) distinct and 15 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) fine distinct mottles; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 roots; 30 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0724
    2Bt4—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 30 percent prominent clay films; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0725
    2Bt5—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 30 percent prominent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0726
    2BC1—152 to 191 centimeters (59.8 to 75.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky, and structureless massive; very hard, very firm; 30 percent prominent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # KY0727
    2BC2—191 to 229 centimeters (75.2 to 90.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and gray (10YR 5/1) clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky, and strong coarse platy structure; very hard, very firm; 30 percent prominent clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # KY0728
    2R—229 centimeters (90.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.