IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cynthiana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KY-015-002
  • User Pedon ID: 96KY-015-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KY-015-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47459
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: Clayey, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cynthiana
  • PSC - 14 to 24 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cynthiana
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum (limestone inter-bedded with calcareous shale)
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone and shale at 30cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/1996 (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

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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 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) mottles; weak granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3777
    Bt—14 to 24 centimeters (5.5 to 9.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay; 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) mottles; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3778
    BC—24 to 30 centimeters (9.4 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) mottles; structureless massive, and weak subangular blocky; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY3779
    R—30 centimeters (11.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3780