IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pickwick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71KY-093-006
  • User Pedon ID: 71KY-093-006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 71KY-093-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 71KY-093-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46576
  • Print Date: 7/1/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 1,000 feet N of Rhudes Church Road; 1 mile W of US 31W; 4 miles S of Elizabethtown.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY093—Hardin
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY621—Hardin and Larue Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • 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 - Pickwick
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pickwick
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Silty material 42 inches thick over residuum from slump sandstone formation.
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1971 (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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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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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    8

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1620
    Bw—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1621
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 15 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1622. patchy - phpvsfiid 610704; patchy - phpvsfiid 610704
    Bt2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1623
    Bt3—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; 1 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) medium faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1624
    Bt4—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1625
    Bt5—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and light gray (10YR 7/2) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1626
    2Bt6—107 to 130 centimeters (42.1 to 51.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1627
    2Bt7—130 to 145 centimeters (51.2 to 57.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay loam; 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium faint and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1628
    2Bt8—145 to 196 centimeters (57.1 to 77.2 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) clay loam; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # KY1629