IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Christian
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY-099-002
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY-099-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83KY-099-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 83KY-099-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46710
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Approximately 6.5 miles E of Mundfordville; 0.8 mile N of Monroe, KY; 0.5 mile W of KY Hwy 677 in pasture field on J.T. Mitchum Farm.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY099—Hart
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY099—Hart County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl Hail, John M. Robbins, Jr., et al.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Christian
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Christian
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone and/or residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/1983 (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

    DAGL

    LOAR10

    Dactylis glomerata

    Lolium arundinaceum

    orchardgrass

    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

    8

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 7 percent by volume 10-?-50 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2570
    Bt1—13 to 56 centimeters (5.1 to 22.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2571
    Bt2—56 to 104 centimeters (22.0 to 40.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) gravelly clay; 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate very coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 50 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume chert fragments and 8 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY2572
    Bt3—104 to 160 centimeters (40.9 to 63.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and pale red (2.5YR 6/2) clay; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume chert fragments and 3 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2573
    Bt4—160 to 198 centimeters (63.0 to 78.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent prominent clay films; 1 percent by volume chert fragments and 1 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KY2574