IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nicholson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KY-015-004
  • User Pedon ID: 97KY-015-004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 97KY-015-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KY-015-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47470
  • Print Date: 1/24/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Ron and Greg Vest's farm.
  • 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-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholson
  • PSC - 23 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholson
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loess over Residuum (inter-bedded limestone and calcareous shale)
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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

    fragipan

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    47 - 88

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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

    5

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3835
    Bt—23 to 40 centimeters (9.1 to 15.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3836
    BE—40 to 47 centimeters (15.7 to 18.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3837
    Btx1—47 to 68 centimeters (18.5 to 26.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak prismatic structure; very firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3838
    Btx2—68 to 88 centimeters (26.8 to 34.6 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay loam; moderate prismatic structure; very firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3839
    2Bt1—88 to 109 centimeters (34.6 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3840
    2Bt2—109 centimeters (42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY3841