IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 58KY-081-001
  • User Pedon ID: 58KY-081-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 58KY-081-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 58KY-081-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46472
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Hubert Odor farm; 7 miles south of Williamstown, KY on KY Hwy 36; halfway from main dwelling to dairy barn and 5 yards west of garden fence line.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY081—Grant
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY619—Grant and Pendleton Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.H. Bailey and T.B. Hutcheson, Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • PSC - 23 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1958 (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

    POA

    Poa

    bluegrass

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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

    6

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0783
    BA—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 15 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0784
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0785
    Bt2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0786
    Bt3—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) mottles; strong medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0787
    BC—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay; weak medium angular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0788
    CB—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay; weak medium angular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0789
    C—112 centimeters (44.1 inches); 45 percent gray (5Y 6/1) and 45 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and 10 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; structureless massive; extremely hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY0790