IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 68KY-187-001
  • User Pedon ID: 68KY-187-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 68KY-187-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 68KY-187-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46537
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 1 mile SE of Sweet Owen; on Lusby Mill Road; near farm managers hous on UK Eden Shale Experimental Farm; 60 yards North of Hwy; between 9th and 10th row of apple trees; 22 yards from west edge of orchard.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY187—Owen
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY612—Carroll, Gallatin, and Owen Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.L. Blevins, H.H. Bailey, and Jim Phelps
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • PSC - 10 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • 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
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1968 (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

    MALUS

    POA

    Malus

    Poa

    apple

    bluegrass

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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    69 -

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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

    14

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1300
    Bt1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; columnar parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 10.0 fine roots; 30 percent prominent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1301
    Bt2—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; columnar parts to strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1302
    C1—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; structureless massive parts to platy; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1303
    C2—41 to 46 centimeters (16.1 to 18.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; platy structure; firm; 1.0 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1304
    C3—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and pale olive (5Y 6/3) silty clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) mottles; platy structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY1305
    Cr—69 to 79 centimeters (27.2 to 31.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; firm; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1306