IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Faywood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KY-015-005
  • User Pedon ID: 97KY-015-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KY-015-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47471
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Boone County, KY; 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, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Faywood
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Faywood
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/1997
  • 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: well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent limestone and shale at 72cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/9/1997 (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, lithic

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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

    14

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate granular structure; friable; 10 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3842
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3843
    Bt2—41 to 52 centimeters (16.1 to 20.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3844
    Bt3—52 to 72 centimeters (20.5 to 28.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3845
    R—72 centimeters (28.3 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3846