IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985KY069014
  • User Pedon ID: 85KY069014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985KY069014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0257
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59553
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Wildlife area, Wallingford, Fleming County, KY. Noseslope site. Burtonville Geol quadrangle.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY069—Fleming
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Sobecki, A. Karathanasis, J. Robbins, C. Hail
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CARYA

    QUERC

    Carya

    Quercus

    hybrid hickory

    oak

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
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    lithic contact

    90—0

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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

    62

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    225

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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01282. Less than 1% thin platy black shale fragments.; many fine and medium roots
    1Bt1—5 to 50 centimeters (2.0 to 19.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky, and strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 2.5 fine to coarse roots; faint reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01283. 13% platy black shale fragments 1 to 15 cm in size inclined relative to soil surface.; common fine to coarse roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 221552; continuous - phpvsfiid 221552
    1Bt2—50 to 66 centimeters (19.7 to 26.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) interior clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 2.5 fine to coarse roots; distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01284. 5 to 10% platy black shale fragments.; common fine to coarse roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 221553; continuous - phpvsfiid 221553
    1C/R—66 to 90 centimeters (26.0 to 35.4 inches); 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and 60 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior and 40 percent black (7.5YR 2/1) interior clay, unweathered bedrock; moderate medium and coarse platy structure; 0.5 roots in cracks; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01285. Thin continuous coats of yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty material in bedding planes and discontinous coats of light gray (10YR 7/1) in R material. 15-20% soft black shale fragments in C part. Black shale is horizontally bedded (2 degree dip) a; few roots in cracks
    1R—90 to 100 centimeters (35.4 to 39.4 inches); 7.5YR 2/0 (7.5YR 2/0) interior unweathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 87P01286. Horizontally bedded (2 degree dip) (7.5YR 2/0) shale.