IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ryker
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 80KY-223-026
  • User Pedon ID: 80KY-223-026
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 80KY-223-026
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 80KY-223-026
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46693
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 2.5 miles S of Milton; 0.5 mile N of Corn Creek; 1 mile S of junction of US 421 and Old Bedford Pike; about 20 feet W of farm lane. X: 1,680,200 feet, Y: 433,200 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY223—Trimble
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY622—Henry and Trimble Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-F3—Madison East, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl W. Hall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ryker
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ryker
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or glaciofluvial deposits and/or residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/20/1980 (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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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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

    4

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2445
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2446. patchy - phpvsfiid 638236; patchy - phpvsfiid 638236
    Bt2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2447. patchy - phpvsfiid 638237; patchy - phpvsfiid 638237
    Bt3—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2448
    2Bt4—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2449. continuous - phpvsfiid 638239; continuous - phpvsfiid 638239
    3Bt5—127 to 157 centimeters (50.0 to 61.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2450. continuous - phpvsfiid 638240; continuous - phpvsfiid 638240
    3Bt6—157 to 203 centimeters (61.8 to 79.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) clay films; 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2451
    3Bt7—203 to 229 centimeters (79.9 to 90.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) clay films; 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter quartz fragments and 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KY2452. continuous - phpvsfiid 638242; continuous - phpvsfiid 638242