IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rossmoyne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 98KY-015-001
  • User Pedon ID: 98KY-015-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 98KY-015-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47478
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Chip Foltz's farm, Hwy 20, east of Petersburg.
  • 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, superactive, mesic Aquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rossmoyne
  • PSC - 22 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rossmoyne
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1998 (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
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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3879
    Bt1—22 to 45 centimeters (8.7 to 17.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3880
    Bt2—45 to 69 centimeters (17.7 to 27.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate subangular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3881
    E/Bt—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3882
    Btx1—81 to 94 centimeters (31.9 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak platy structure; firm; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3883
    Btx2—94 to 111 centimeters (37.0 to 43.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1) iron depletions and 10 percent manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KY3884