IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87KY-045-006
  • User Pedon ID: 87KY-045-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 87KY-045-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46776
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 37.4750000
  • Std. Longitude: -84.9338889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mile west of Ellisburg; 0.3 mile north of KY Hwy 78 on Farm rd. to top of ridge.
  • Map Unit: TrC—Trappist silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY045—Casey
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY045—Casey County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37084-D8—Ellisburg, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.S. Evans and T.C. Fristoe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • PSC - 15 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from shale-noncalcareous materials
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale, acid at 64cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Pasture land and native pasture
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    84 - 96

    96 -

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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

    9

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    310.9

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2997
    Bt1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 0.0 very fine high-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2998. continuous - phpvsfiid 639181; continuous - phpvsfiid 639181
    Bt2—28 to 64 centimeters (11.0 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct mottles; strong fine angular blocky parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2999. continuous - phpvsfiid 639182; continuous - phpvsfiid 639182
    C—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 30 percent gray (5YR 6/1) bedrock; structureless massive; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3000
    Cr—84 to 96 centimeters (33.1 to 37.8 inches); black (5YR 2/1) bedrock; massive; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3001
    R—96 to 124 centimeters (37.8 to 48.8 inches); black (5YR 2/1) bedrock; massive; fragments. Lab sample # KY3002