IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Saffell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86KY-139-007
  • User Pedon ID: 86KY-139-007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 86KY-139-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KY-139-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46764
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Livingston County, KY; about 200 yards southeast of Corinth Church; 0.7 mile northeast of junction of Corinth Road and Kentucky 453; about 1.8 miles norhtwest of junction 453 and U.S. 62 & 641 at Lake City; Kentucky coordinate grid values: east-west 1,269,500 feet and north-south about 270,400 feet; typical Saffell pedons have siliceous mineralogy.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY139—Livingston
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY139—Livingston County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Craddock, J. Robbins, K. Bates, K. Scott, and R. Forsythe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Saffell
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Saffell
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Coastal plain gravel from Tuscaloosa geological formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1986 (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

    12

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2910
    BA—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2911
    Bt1—38 to 76 centimeters (15.0 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) extremely gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2912. patchy - phpvsfiid 638980; patchy - phpvsfiid 638980
    Bt2—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) extremely gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2913. patchy - phpvsfiid 638981; patchy - phpvsfiid 638981
    BC—112 to 137 centimeters (44.1 to 53.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) extremely gravelly clay loam; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine distinct and 1 percent 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2914
    C—137 to 183 centimeters (53.9 to 72.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) extremely gravelly sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY2915