IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zanesville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 70KY-047-058
  • User Pedon ID: 70KY-047-058
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 70KY-047-058
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46552
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 36.8539696
  • Std. Longitude: -87.3011169
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: from US Hwy 68 at Fairview; N 0.8 mile on KY 115; site is S of Hwy.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY047—Christian
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY047—Christian County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36087-G3—Pembroke, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zanesville
  • PSC - 18 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zanesville
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Regolith is 89 cm of loess underlain by residuum from acid shale, siltstone, and sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone and shale at 119cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    fragipan

    bedrock, lithic

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    51 - 89

    114 -

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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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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1403
    Ap2—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1404
    Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1405
    Bt2—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium faint mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1406
    Btx—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine faint mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1407, KY1408
    2Bt1—89 to 99 centimeters (35.0 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 50 percent clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1409
    2Bt2—99 to 119 centimeters (39.0 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) very gravelly silty clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 50 percent clay films on rock fragments; 50 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1410
    2Cr—119 to 140 centimeters (46.9 to 55.1 inches); bedrock; 15 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; extremely firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY1411
    2R—140 centimeters (55.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.