IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 98KY-015-005
  • User Pedon ID: 98KY-015-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 98KY-015-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47482
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 39.0635417
  • Std. Longitude: -84.8616806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Boone County, Ky; Randall Farm, Hwy 20 east of Petersburg.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY015—Boone
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, 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
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • PSC - 17 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from calcareous shale and/or clayey residuum weathered from limestone and/or clayey residuum weathered from siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale and siltstone at 77cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/9/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    weakly coherent

    77 - 102

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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

    15

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    179.8

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3903
    Bt1—17 to 31 centimeters (6.7 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; 1 percent brown (10YR 4/3) mottles; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3904
    Bt2—31 to 56 centimeters (12.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) mottles; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3905
    BC—56 to 77 centimeters (22.0 to 30.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; 1 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) mottles; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent pale red (2.5YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3906
    Cr—77 centimeters (30.3 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3907