IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rossmoyne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95KY-015-002
  • User Pedon ID: 95KY-015-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 95KY-015-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47450
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: George Rehkamp's farm, Hwy. 237 northwest of US 42.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY015—Boone
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY603—Boone, Campbell, and Kenton Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Collins and A.D. Karathanasis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, vermiculitic, superactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rossmoyne
  • PSC - 23 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rossmoyne
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Reisuum (loess over glacial till)
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1995 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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    48 - 84

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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
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    Ap—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3712
    BA—11 to 23 centimeters (4.3 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; ; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3713
    Bt—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3714
    Btx1—48 to 68 centimeters (18.9 to 26.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak prismatic structure; very firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3715
    Btx2—68 to 84 centimeters (26.8 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak prismatic structure; very firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3716
    2Bt—84 to 140 centimeters (33.1 to 55.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3717
    2BC—140 to 199 centimeters (55.1 to 78.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY3718