IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mountview
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 75KY-087-001
  • User Pedon ID: 1975KY087001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 75KY-087-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 75KY-087-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46618
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 6,000 feet SW of Sand Lick Church and about 4 miles SE of Somerville; 5 miles NW of Greensburg.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY087—Green
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY620—Green and Taylor Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountview
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountview
  • Classificaton Date - 3/20/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/20/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1947
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1948
    Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume 2-?-25 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1949
    Bt3—61 to 94 centimeters (24.0 to 37.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent silt coats and 30 percent red (2.5YR 5/6) clay films; 2 percent by volume 2-?-25 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1950. continuous - phpvsfiid 1308105; continuous - phpvsfiid 1308105
    2Bt4—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt coats; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1951. continuous - phpvsfiid 1308107; continuous - phpvsfiid 1308107
    2Bt5—124 to 150 centimeters (48.8 to 59.1 inches); silty clay; fragments. Lab sample # KY1952
    2Bt6—150 to 178 centimeters (59.1 to 70.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films and 30 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KY1953. continuous - phpvsfiid 1308109; continuous - phpvsfiid 1308109