IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 66KY-049-001
  • User Pedon ID: 66KY-049-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 66KY-049-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 66KY-049-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46494
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: George Proctor farm; Winchester, KY.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY049—Clark
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY049—Clark County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38084-A2—Austerlitz, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.B. Odor and H.H. Bailey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • PSC - 36 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/1966
  • 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: well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 104cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/1966 (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

    DAGL

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    bedrock, lithic

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    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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY0952
    A—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY0953
    BA—30 to 36 centimeters (11.8 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY0954
    Bt1—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY0955
    Bt2—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KY0956
    Bt3—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent clay films; 1 percent fine cylindrical brown (10YR 4/3) iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # KY0957
    BC—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 15 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) distinct and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) distinct and 15 percent olive (5Y 5/3) distinct mottles; structureless massive; 30 percent clay films; 1 percent fine cylindrical brown (10YR 4/3) iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # KY0958
    C1—79 to 91 centimeters (31.1 to 35.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) distinct mottles; structureless massive; fragments. Lab sample # KY0959
    C2—91 to 104 centimeters (35.8 to 40.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) clay; fragments. Lab sample # KY0960
    R—104 centimeters (40.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY0961