IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79KY-173-004
  • User Pedon ID: 79KY-173-004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 79KY-173-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 79KY-173-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46671
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 2,000 feet SE from intersection of KY-213 and Refitt Rd.; south of Refitt Rd. 450 feet; about 2.07 miles NE of Jeffersonville; North System, east-west: 2,122,100 feet, north-south: 181,700 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: Ronnie Froedge and Pam Wood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • PSC - 13 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/1979
  • 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: very strongly coherent shale, acid at 97cm
  • 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

    bedrock, lithic

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    97 -

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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

    21

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2274
    Bt1—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2275
    Bt2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2276
    C1—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silty clay; 15 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 40 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2277
    C2—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) extremely channery silty clay; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint and 15 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) coarse distinct and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium faint mottles; structureless massive; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 80 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2278
    R—97 centimeters (38.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2279