IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brandon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86KY-139-011
  • User Pedon ID: 86KY-139-011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 86KY-139-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KY-139-011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46768
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.0511856
  • Std. Longitude: -88.2639236
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Livingston County, Kentucky, 450 yards north of a point on the Corinth Road which is 0.3 miles east of junction of Corith Road and Kentucky 453; about 1.8 miles norhtwest of U.S. 62 & 641 at Lake City, Kentucky coordinate grid values: east-west about 1,266,500 and north-south about 271,050 feet.
  • 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: J. Robbins, K. Bates, R. Forsythe and Ken Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, thermic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brandon
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brandon
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess over coastal plain gravel from Tuscaloosa geological formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/7/1986 (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 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2939
    BE—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, iron depletions on surfaces along root channels; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2940
    Bt1—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 5 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2941. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639137; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639137
    Bt2—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) fine distinct and 15 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct and 15 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) medium distinct and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2942. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639138; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639138
    2C1—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct and 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2943
    2C2—91 to 140 centimeters (35.8 to 55.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) very gravelly loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; firm; 0.0 very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2944
    3C—140 to 178 centimeters (55.1 to 70.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) gravelly clay loam; 1 percent light reddish brown (2.5YR 6/4) fine prominent and 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine distinct and 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY2945