IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 55KY-081-002
  • User Pedon ID: 2015KY081001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 55KY-081-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46461
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Ottis Kells' farm; 1.25 miles SE of Williamstown and 800 yards east of Cooperstown Road.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY081—Grant
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY619—Grant and Pendleton Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.H. Bailey, H.B. Odor, and T.B. Hutcheson, Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • PSC - 8 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone and siltstone and/or residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent siltstone, unspecified at 71cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Pasture, mixed native weeds and grasses
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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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

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) flaggy silty clay loam; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 18 percent by volume flat very angular very strongly coherent cemented 150-230-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0700
    Bt1—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) flaggy silty clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent worm casts; 24 percent by volume flat very angular very strongly coherent cemented 150-230-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0701
    Bt2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) flaggy silty clay; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 24 percent by volume flat very angular very strongly coherent cemented 150-230-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0702
    C—28 to 71 centimeters (11.0 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume flat very angular very strongly coherent cemented 150-230-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0703
    Cr—71 centimeters (28.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.