IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79KY-173-003
  • User Pedon ID: 79KY-173-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 79KY-173-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46670
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 1.16 miles west from intersection at Levee of KY-11 and KY-646; 200 feet south of KY-646; North system east-west: 2,084,300 feet, north-south: 168,400 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-H8—Levee, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Glenn E. Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from acid shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale, acid at 66cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Mixed weeds and grasses; few cedar trees
  • 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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    66 - 140

    140 -

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    14

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2268
    Bt1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt coats and 10 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2269. patchy - phpvsfiid 638172; patchy - phpvsfiid 638173; patchy - phpvsfiid 638172; patchy - phpvsfiid 638173
    Bt2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films; 3 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2270. continuous - phpvsfiid 638174; continuous - phpvsfiid 638174
    BC—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct and 15 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; weak very coarse platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2271. patchy - phpvsfiid 638175; patchy - phpvsfiid 638175
    Cr—66 to 140 centimeters (26.0 to 55.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2272
    R—140 centimeters (55.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2273