IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 72KY-239-003
  • User Pedon ID: 72KY-239-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 72KY-239-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46595
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 500 feet west of Steels Road; 1,000 feet SW of the intersection of US Hwy 60 and Steels Raod; about 4 miles NW of Versailles.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY239—Woodford
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY624—Jessamine and Woodford Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 127cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1972 (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
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    bedrock, lithic

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1774
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1775
    Bt2—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 15 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1776
    Bt3—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint and 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 15 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1777
    BC—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint and 15 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) medium faint mottles; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1778
    C1—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; very firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1779
    C2—114 to 127 centimeters (44.9 to 50.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silty clay; structureless massive; very firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1780
    R—127 centimeters (50.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1781