IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bedford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79KY-213-005
  • User Pedon ID: 79KY-213-005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 79KY-213-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 79KY-213-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46679
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 36.7475528
  • Std. Longitude: -86.6322583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2.75 miles W of KY Hwy 73; about 1 mile N of Franklin. X: 1,741,500 feet, Y: 152,000 feet.
  • Map Unit: NhB—Nicholson silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY213—Simpson
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY213—Simpson County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36086-F6—Prices Mill, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • PSC - 18 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or loess over residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: depression
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

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    48 - 155

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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

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    207

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 15 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium distinct mottles; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2336
    Bt—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2337. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635624; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635624
    Btx1—48 to 91 centimeters (18.9 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 10 percent silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2338. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635626; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635626
    Btx2—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2339. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635628; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635628
    Btx3—127 to 155 centimeters (50.0 to 61.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2340. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635630; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635630
    2Bt—155 to 183 centimeters (61.0 to 72.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and gray (10YR 6/1) silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KY2341. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635631; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635631