IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 55KY-081-001
  • User Pedon ID: 55KY-081-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 55KY-081-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 55KY-081-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46460
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 0.25 mile west of Fairview Church located on Hwy 489; 4 miles NE of Williamstown, KY; at water line of Lake Williamstown above confluence of Goose Creek and East Fork of Grassy Creek.
  • 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

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • PSC - 8 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone and siltstone and/or residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 102cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    LESPE

    TRPR2

    TRRE3

    Lespedeza

    Trifolium pratense

    Trifolium repens

    lespedeza

    red clover

    white clover

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    102 -

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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

    28

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; hard, firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0694
    Bt1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; moderate medium platy parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0695
    Bt2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay; medium platy parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0696
    BC—38 to 74 centimeters (15.0 to 29.1 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) and olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium platy parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0697
    C—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; strong coarse platy parts to structureless massive, and strong coarse platy parts to strong medium angular blocky; extremely hard, very firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0698
    R—102 centimeters (40.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY0699