IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 58KY-067-002
  • User Pedon ID: 58KY-067-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 58KY-067-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 58KY-067-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46471
  • Print Date: 5/6/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: University of Kentucky Poultry research farm; 92 feet N of NW corner of central building; 75 yards south of gate on Leestown Road.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY067—Fayette
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY643—Fayette County Area, Part of Fayette County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.H. Bailey and T.B. Hutcheson, Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Maury
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maury
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from phosphatic limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 267cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1958 (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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    267 -

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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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0774
    AB—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 very fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0775
    BA—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0776
    Bt1—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; 15 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0777
    Bt2—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay loam, silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; 15 percent medium black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0778
    Bt3—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; 15 percent medium cylindrical black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0779
    C—109 to 267 centimeters (42.9 to 105.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0780, KY0781
    R—267 centimeters (105.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY0782