IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mountview
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79KY-213-008
  • User Pedon ID: 1979KY213008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 79KY-213-008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 79KY-213-008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46681
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 3.5 miles W of KY Hwy 383; about 1.25 miles N of Tennessee State line; about 2 miles SW of Prices Mill; about 10 miles SW of Franklin. X: 1,706,000 feet, Y: 124,000 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY213—Simpson
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36086-F7—Adairville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Oxyaquic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • 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 - 6/13/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1


    • 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: 6/13/1979 (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

    NICOT

    Nicotiana

    tobacco

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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); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 1.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1308123; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1308123
    Bt2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats and 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3) clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt3—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats and 30 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1308127; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1308127
    2Bt4—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats and 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1308129; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1308129
    2Bt5—127 to 178 centimeters (50.0 to 70.1 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) clay films; fragments. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1308131; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1308131