IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Faywood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 98KY-015-007
  • User Pedon ID: 98KY-015-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 98KY-015-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47484
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Boone County, KY; Davis 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 - 11 to 42 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Faywood
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum (loess over glacial till)
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 60cm
  • 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
  • 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

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    Ap—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3914
    Bt1—11 to 25 centimeters (4.3 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3915
    Bt2—25 to 42 centimeters (9.8 to 16.5 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) mottles; moderate subangular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3916
    C—42 to 60 centimeters (16.5 to 23.6 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent pale red (2.5YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3917
    R—60 centimeters (23.6 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3918