IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beasley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 80KY-223-029
  • User Pedon ID: 80KY-223-029
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 80KY-223-029
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 80KY-223-029
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46696
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Trimble County, KY; 4 miles south of Bedford and 1000 feet east of US 42
  • 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-E3—Bedford, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beasley
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beasley
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from calcareous shale, siltstone, and limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, unspecified at 104cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/21/1980 (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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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    104 -

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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

    10

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2471
    A—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2472
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 fine roots and and ; 0.0 fine and and pores; and ; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2473
    Bt2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; clay films; ; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2474. continuous - phpvsfiid 635549; continuous - phpvsfiid 635549
    Bt3—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; clay films; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2475. continuous - phpvsfiid 635550; continuous - phpvsfiid 635550
    BC—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; clay films; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2476. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635551; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635551
    Cr—104 to 142 centimeters (40.9 to 55.9 inches); bedrock; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # KY2477