IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Christian
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71KY-093-009
  • User Pedon ID: 71KY-093-009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 71KY-093-009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46579
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 0.2 mile N of KY Hwy 434; 0.3 mile E of US 31W; 7.5 miles N of Elizabethtown.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY093—Hardin
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY621—Hardin and Larue Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, kaolinitic, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Christian
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Christian
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone and/or residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1650
    BA—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent by volume chert fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1651
    Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; 15 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) fine faint and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1652
    Bt2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1653
    Bt3—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium distinct and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1654
    Bt4—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); clay; fragments. Lab sample # KY1655
    Bt5—104 to 132 centimeters (40.9 to 52.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1656
    Bt6—132 to 168 centimeters (52.0 to 66.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) channery clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 50 percent clay films; 30 percent by volume chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1657
    C/Bt—168 to 196 centimeters (66.1 to 77.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; structureless massive; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY1658