IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Christian
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87KY-027-001
  • User Pedon ID: 87KY-027-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 87KY-027-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 87KY-027-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46770
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 37.8406181
  • Std. Longitude: -86.2588577
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 400 feet N of KY Hwy 333; 500 feet E of Thornhill Road; 0.5 mile W of Bewleyville.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY027—Breckinridge
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY607—Breckinridge and Meade Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37086-G3—Garfield, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Christian
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Christian
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or pedisediment and/or residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1987 (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

    TRPR2

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Trifolium pratense

    tall fescue

    red clover

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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

    16

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); 65 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate coarse granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 12 percent by volume angular 19-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2956
    Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) and reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume angular 19-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2957
    Bt2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; 5 percent by volume angular 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2958. continuous - phpvsfiid 639226; continuous - phpvsfiid 639226
    Bt3—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; 15 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume angular 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2959. continuous - phpvsfiid 639227; continuous - phpvsfiid 639227
    Bt4—61 to 104 centimeters (24.0 to 40.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) silty clay; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; 1 percent by volume angular 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2960. continuous - phpvsfiid 639228; continuous - phpvsfiid 639228
    Bt5—104 to 183 centimeters (40.9 to 72.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) silty clay loam; 15 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) medium prominent and 15 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) coarse prominent mottles; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent clay films; 1 percent by volume angular 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2961. continuous - phpvsfiid 639229; continuous - phpvsfiid 639229