IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frankstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987KY045002
  • User Pedon ID: 1987KY045002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0707
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60002
  • 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: 37.2470703
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7323151
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Casey County, KY: 3.3 mi SE of Mt. Olive, KY on Brown Ridge 1.1 mi SE of Brown Cemetery on Gravel Rd 75 feet S barn.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY045—Casey
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. S. Evans, J. P. Fehr and O. J. Whitaker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frankstown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1987 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—20

    20—108

    108—0

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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

    —

    —

    293

    —

    270

    112

    —

    —

    13

    23

    1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P03802. few very fine roots between peds
    Bt1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P03803. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169959; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1169959
    Bt2—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P03804. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 1169960; continuous - phpvsfiid 1169960
    BC—76 to 108 centimeters (29.9 to 42.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior very channery clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots around fragments; 15 percent distinct , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 42 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P03805. 37% by volume (19-75 mm) (52% by wt.). 5-10% by volume (2-19 mm).; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots matted around stones; patchy - phpvsfiid 1169961; patchy - phpvsfiid 1169961
    Crt—108 to 170 centimeters (42.5 to 66.9 inches); yellow (10YR 7/8) interior; 37 percent faint , moist, clay films on rock fragments; fragments. Lab sample # 87P03806. Clay films on top of horizontal faces of fragments in upper part of the horizon.; common clay films surface features on rock fragments; continuous - phpvsfiid 1169962; continuous - phpvsfiid 1169962