IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 68KY-187-002
  • User Pedon ID: 68KY-187-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 68KY-187-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 68KY-187-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46538
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Eden Shale Experimental Farm; 0.75 mile south of KY Hwy 22; 10 yards west of grass establishment plot #2 (established 1966-1967).
  • 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 and James Phelps
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • PSC - 13 to 38 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 shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale and siltstone at 94cm
  • 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 - tree 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

    CERCI2

    QUERC

    TRIFO

    ULCR

    Cercis

    Quercus

    Trifolium

    Ulmus crassifolia

    redbud

    oak

    clover

    cedar elm

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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    94 -

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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

    27

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) flaggy silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; firm; 15 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1307
    Bt1—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) mottles; weak coarse columnar structure; very firm; 30 percent clay films; 4 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1308. continuous - phpvsfiid 635336; continuous - phpvsfiid 635336
    Bt2—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) flaggy silty clay; weak coarse columnar parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1309. continuous - phpvsfiid 635337; continuous - phpvsfiid 635337
    C1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) flaggy silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 1 percent olive (5Y 5/3) mottles; structureless massive parts to platy; very firm; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1310
    C2—61 to 94 centimeters (24.0 to 37.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) mottles; platy structure; very firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1311
    Cr—94 centimeters (37.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1312