IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loradale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93KY-239-001
  • User Pedon ID: 93KY-239-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 93KY-239-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 93KY-239-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47405
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Woodford County, KY; University of Kentucky farm.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY239—Woodford
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY624—Jessamine and Woodford Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Loradale
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loradale
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 109cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1993 (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

    DAGL

    POA

    TRRE3

    Dactylis glomerata

    Poa

    Trifolium repens

    orchardgrass

    bluegrass

    white clover

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    109 -

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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

    4

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    A—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3455
    Bt—38 to 86 centimeters (15.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3456
    BC—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 30 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine and 30 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium mottles; weak coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3457
    R—109 centimeters (42.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3458