IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mercer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 66KY-211-001
  • User Pedon ID: 66KY-211-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 66KY-211-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46505
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Al Moffet Nursery farm; 0.5 mile NW of Shelby County Fairground.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY211—Shelby
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY211—Shelby County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-B2—Shelbyville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.P. Fehr and H.H. Bailey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mercer
  • PSC - 25 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mercer
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or clayey residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1966 (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
    cm

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    58 - 91

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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) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY1061
    BA—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY1062
    Bt1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY1063
    Bt2—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY1064
    Btx1—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY1065
    2Btx2—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light gray (N 7/), silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent irregular black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KY1066
    2C1—91 to 104 centimeters (35.8 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and light gray (N 7/), and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent irregular black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses and 30 percent irregular black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings; fragments. Lab sample # KY1067
    2C2—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); light gray (N 7/), and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent irregular black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses and 30 percent irregular black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings; fragments. Lab sample # KY1068