IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KY067 Maury-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 08KY067 Maury-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KY-067-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46409
  • Print Date: 5/5/2024

    • 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: 38.1055565
  • Std. Longitude: -84.4938889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a hay field 600 feet north of I-64/75, on the University of Kentucky Agricultural Research Farm (Spindletop Farm); 1400 feet northwest of the I-64/75 and KY 922 interchange; 4.5 miles north of Lexington. Lexington East USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: uBlmB—Bluegrass-Maury silt loams, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY067—Fayette
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY643—Fayette County Area, Part of Fayette County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38084-B4—Centerville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Blanford, Bob Eigel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Maury (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maury
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from phosphatic limestone
  • Landscape: karst upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered limestone, phosphatic
  • Geology: Tanglewood Limestone member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—135

    —23—

    —112—
    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

    3

    —

    —

    276

    —

    1168

    —

    192

    12.9

    23.6

    1.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    154746

    Lexington WSO AP

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; moderate permeability; 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0317; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical weakly coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0318; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 415263; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 415263
    Bt2—41 to 91 centimeters (16.1 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; strong coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 0.8 fine roots between peds; 40 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 8 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0319; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 415264; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 415264
    Bt3—91 to 135 centimeters (35.8 to 53.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; slow permeability; 60 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent coarse prominent irregular moderately coherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 15 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 15 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0320; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 415265; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 415265
    BC1—135 to 180 centimeters (53.1 to 70.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; slow permeability; 1 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 8 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0321; moist when described; observed in push tube
    BC2—180 to 254 centimeters (70.9 to 100.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; slow permeability; 8 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (7.5YR 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter. Lab sample # KY0322; moist when described; observed in push tube