IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beasley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85KY-069-012
  • User Pedon ID: 85KY-069-012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 85KY-069-012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 85KY-069-012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46754
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.3789406
  • Std. Longitude: -83.6346130
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Atlas sheet #17 near Bluebank; X: 2,176,320 feet, Y: 320,640 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY069—Fleming
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY069—Fleming County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-D6—Flemingsburg, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs, G. Kelley, and A.D. Karathanasis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beasley
  • PSC - 10 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beasley
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Calcareous shales and dolomite; lower part of Crab Orchard Formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: knob
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 150cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1985 (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, lithic

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    150 -

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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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    850

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2830
    Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay, clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2831. continuous - phpvsfiid 639127; continuous - phpvsfiid 639127
    Bt2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay, clay; 30 percent olive yellow (5Y 6/6) medium distinct and 30 percent olive yellow (5Y 6/6) coarse distinct and 30 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) medium distinct and 30 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) coarse distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2832. continuous - phpvsfiid 639129; continuous - phpvsfiid 639129
    BCt—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and dusky red (10R 3/4) and olive yellow (5Y 6/6) silty clay loam, silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent glauconite pellets throughout; 5 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2833. continuous - phpvsfiid 639130; continuous - phpvsfiid 639130
    Ck1—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); olive yellow (5Y 6/6) and red (2.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2834
    Ck2—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); olive yellow (5Y 6/6) silty clay loam; strong medium platy structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2835
    Ck3—114 to 150 centimeters (44.9 to 59.1 inches); grayish green (5G 5/2); structureless massive; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2836
    R—150 centimeters (59.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.