IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KY-015-001
  • User Pedon ID: 96KY-015-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KY-015-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47458
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Boone County, KY; Flaig farm, Hwy 536 west of Union.
  • 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: A.D. Karathanasis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • PSC - 26 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from calcareous shale and/or residuum weathered from limestone and/or residuum weathered from siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale and siltstone at 78cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/9/1996 (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

    bedrock, paralithic

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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 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3771
    BA—17 to 26 centimeters (6.7 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3772
    Bt1—26 to 51 centimeters (10.2 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) mottles; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3773
    Bt2—51 to 67 centimeters (20.1 to 26.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) mottles; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3774
    BC—67 to 78 centimeters (26.4 to 30.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silty clay; 30 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) mottles; strong subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # KY3775
    Cr—78 centimeters (30.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3776