IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fairmount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93KY-239-006
  • User Pedon ID: 93KY-239-006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 93KY-239-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 93KY-239-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47410
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: Clayey, mixed, mesic Lithic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairmount
  • PSC - 18 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fairmount
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 48cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    ACNE2

    QUERC

    Acer negundo

    Quercus

    boxelder

    oak

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    48 -

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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

    25

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3478
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3479
    Bt2—41 to 48 centimeters (16.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3480
    R—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3481