IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 72KY-209-001
  • User Pedon ID: 72KY-209-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 72KY-209-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 72KY-209-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46585
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 38.3121444
  • Std. Longitude: -84.5567667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.1 mile east of I-75; 0.7 mile north of Rogers Gap Road; about 7 miles north of Georgetown. Photo AGM-12F-45.
  • Map Unit: EdD—Eden silty clay loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY209—Scott
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY209—Scott County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38084-C5—Delaplain, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Newton, Sims, and Weisenberger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • PSC - 10 to 60 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: clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1972 (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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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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

    12

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    305.4

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    220

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1693
    Bt1—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay films; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1694
    Bt2—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay; 1 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1695
    Bt3—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) very channery silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 50 percent by volume siltstone, calcareous fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1696
    BC1—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) channery silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume siltstone, calcareous fragments and 10 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1697
    BC2—91 to 135 centimeters (35.8 to 53.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese coatings and 15 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1698
    C—135 to 185 centimeters (53.1 to 72.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4); fragments. Lab sample # KY1699