IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tilsit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79KY-173-008
  • User Pedon ID: 79KY-173-008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 79KY-173-008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 79KY-173-008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46675
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 200 feet south of gravel road; 0.5 mile east of paved road; 1 mile north of US-460; 3.5 miles east of Jeffersonville. North system X: 2,133,250 feet; Y: 170,750 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 - 71 to 121 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilsit
  • Classificaton Date - 6/18/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale and siltstone at 198cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/18/1979 (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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    51 - 198

    198 -

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 15 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium distinct mottles; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2301
    BE—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt coats; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2302
    Ex—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 1.0 fine pores; 30 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt coats; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2303. continuous - phpvsfiid 638166; continuous - phpvsfiid 638166
    Btx1—71 to 109 centimeters (28.0 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 1.0 fine pores; 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) silt coats; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2304. continuous - phpvsfiid 638167; continuous - phpvsfiid 638167
    Btx2—109 to 198 centimeters (42.9 to 78.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; very firm; brittle; 1.0 fine pores; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2305, KY2306
    Cr—198 to 218 centimeters (78.0 to 85.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.