IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bedford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 55KY-217-002
  • User Pedon ID: 55KY-217-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 55KY-217-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 55KY-217-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46465
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Campbellsville Soil Experiment Field; Campbellsville, KY; 25 yards from Hwy 210; 103 yards from S fence; 50 yards from N 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

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent limestone, cherty at 168cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/1955 (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

    Lespedeza

    lespedeza

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    51 - 147

    168 -

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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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0729
    E—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0730
    BE—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0731
    Btx1—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; brittle; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0732
    Btx2—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; brittle; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0733
    Btx3—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; brittle; 30 percent prominent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KY0734
    Btx4—117 to 147 centimeters (46.1 to 57.9 inches); black (N 2/), and red (2.5YR 4/6) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silty clay loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; brittle; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0735
    C—147 to 168 centimeters (57.9 to 66.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and light gray (10YR 7/2) and gray (N 6/), clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky, and structureless massive; hard, firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0736
    R—168 centimeters (66.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY0737