IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tilsit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79KY-173-002
  • User Pedon ID: 79KY-173-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 79KY-173-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 79KY-173-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46669
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 0.3 mile west of gravel road; 1.2 miles north of US-460; 1 mile east of Jeffersonville. North System X: 2,113,500 feet, Y: 178,000 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY173—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY173—Montgomery County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-H7—Means, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilsit
  • PSC - 36 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilsit
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale and siltstone at 104cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/1979 (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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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

    bedrock, paralithic

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    58 - 104

    104 -

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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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    2

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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; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2262
    BA—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2263
    Bt—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2264
    Btx1—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and pale red (2.5YR 7/2) silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2265. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638162; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638162
    Btx2—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silty clay loam; 30 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2266
    Cr—104 to 160 centimeters (40.9 to 63.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2267