IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Faywood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09KY049005
  • User Pedon ID: 09KY049005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 09KY049005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KY-049-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46416
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 37.9522209
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2111130
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a hay/pasture field 425 feet north/northeast of barn at the end of Tangle Ridge Lane; 1,665 feet east of Boonesboro Road (Hwy. 627); 3 miles south/soutwest of Winchester, KY; Winchester USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle.
  • Map Unit: ScC2—Salvisa silty clay loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY049—Clark
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY049—Clark County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37084-H2—Winchester, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Aldridge, Bob Eigel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Faywood
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Salvisa
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2009
  • 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 at 91cm
  • Geology: Millersburg member of the Lexington Limestone formation in the Ordovician group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/10/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAGL

    TRPR2

    Dactylis glomerata

    Trifolium pratense

    orchardgrass

    red clover

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    91 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    18—71

    91—

    —18—

    —53—

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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

    10

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    296

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0408; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0409; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 468696; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 468696
    Bt2—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; moderately slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 50 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0410; moist when described; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 468697; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 468697
    C—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); 95 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and 5 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) channery silty clay; massive; very firm; slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter limestone, phosphatic fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0411; moist when described; observed in push tube
    R—91 centimeters (35.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.