IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Combs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 98KY-111-004
  • User Pedon ID: 98KY-111-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 98KY-111-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47492
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Typical pedon of Farnsley Moremen Riverside Landing Park on first bottom. USGS Kosmosdale topographic quadrangle.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY111—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY111—Jefferson County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38085-A8—Kosmosdale, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Combs
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Combs
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3966
    Ap2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3967
    Bw1—41 to 102 centimeters (16.1 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3968
    Bw2—102 to 119 centimeters (40.2 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3969
    C1—119 to 155 centimeters (46.9 to 61.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; structureless massive; very friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent manganese coatings; 20 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3970
    C2—155 to 170 centimeters (61.0 to 66.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) iron depletions throughout and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 20 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3971
    Cg—170 to 203 centimeters (66.9 to 79.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 30 percent medium dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron and 30 percent medium dark red (2.5YR 3/6) masses of oxidized iron; 20 percent mica flakes, unspecified; fragments. Lab sample # KY3972