IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Saffell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86KY-139-012
  • User Pedon ID: 86KY-139-012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 86KY-139-012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KY-139-012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46769
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 37.0492439
  • Std. Longitude: -88.2544785
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Livingston County, KY; about 176 yards southeast of Corinth Church; 0.7 mile norhteast of junction of Corinth Road and Kentucky 453 and U.S. 62 & 641 at Lake City. Kentucky coordinate grid values: east-west about 1,269,250 feet and north-south about 270,140 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: J. Robbins, K. Bates, R. Forsythe, and Ken Scott
  • 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 - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Saffell
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/1986
  • 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: 5/7/1986 (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

    22

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2946
    Bt1—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2947. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638982; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638982
    Bt2—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) very gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on rock fragments; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2948. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638983; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638983
    BC—61 to 102 centimeters (24.0 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) extremely gravelly loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt coats on rock fragments; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2949. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638984; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638985; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638984; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638985
    C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) extremely gravelly loam; structureless massive; extremely firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY2950