IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 66KY-067-011
  • User Pedon ID: 66KY-067-011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 66KY-067-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 66KY-067-011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46497
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: C.W. Griggs farm on Cleveland Pike.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY067—Fayette
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY643—Fayette County Area, Part of Fayette County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38084-A3—Clintonville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.H. Bailey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 5/6/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/6/1966 (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

    LESPE

    POA

    Lespedeza

    Poa

    lespedeza

    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
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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; very friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0979
    A—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0980
    Bt1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY0981
    Bt2—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY0982
    Bt3—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KY0983
    Bt4—79 to 94 centimeters (31.1 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 15 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KY0984
    C—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; structureless massive; very firm; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KY0985