IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 72KY-113-001
  • User Pedon ID: 72KY-113-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 72KY-113-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46583
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 3.5 miles west of Nicholasville, KY; 0.75 mile west of US 68; 0.5 mile north of the intersection fo US 68 and KY Hwy 169.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY113—Jessamine
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY624—Jessamine and Woodford Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 135cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    bedrock, lithic

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    Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1680
    B/A—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1681
    Bt1—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1682
    Bt2—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine faint and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 very fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; 5 percent by volume 2-?-12 millimeter chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1683
    BC—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; 30 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct and 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct mottles; weak medium angular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses and 15 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings; 5 percent by volume 2-?-50 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1684
    C—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and gray (10YR 6/1) clay; structureless massive, and weak fine angular blocky, and weak very fine angular blocky; very firm; 0.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films; 30 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter chert fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-50 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1685
    R—135 centimeters (53.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.