IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cynthiana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 80KY-161-006
  • User Pedon ID: 80KY-161-006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 80KY-161-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 80KY-161-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46691
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 600 feet north of Half Hill Road; 3,000 feet NE of confluence of Stone Lick Creek and the North Fork of the Licking River; 5,000 feet west of junction of Half Hill Road and KY 1440 at Orangeburg, KY. X: 2,155,600 feet, Y: 378,150 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY161—Mason
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY161—Mason County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-E6—Orangeburg, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.H. Bailey, Glenn Kelley, and Steve Jacobs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cynthiana
  • PSC - 13 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cynthiana
  • Classificaton Date - 5/28/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 46cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/28/1980 (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

    POA

    TRIFO

    Poa

    Trifolium

    bluegrass

    clover

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    46 -

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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

    22

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    780

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots; 8 percent by volume 50-?-475 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2432
    Bt1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) clay films; 8 percent by volume 50-?-475 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2433. patchy - phpvsfiid 638308; patchy - phpvsfiid 638308
    Bt2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) flaggy clay; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) clay films; 15 percent by volume 50-?-475 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2434. continuous - phpvsfiid 638309; continuous - phpvsfiid 638309
    BC—41 to 46 centimeters (16.1 to 18.1 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 30 percent pale olive (5Y 6/4) flaggy clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) clay films; 15 percent by volume 50-?-475 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KY2435. patchy - phpvsfiid 638310; patchy - phpvsfiid 638310
    R—46 centimeters (18.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2436