IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Baxter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 75KY-227-001
  • User Pedon ID: 75KY-227-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 75KY-227-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 75KY-227-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46629
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 100 yards N of KY Hwy 234; 300 yards E of intersection of gravel road; about 1.5 miles E of Bowling Green, KY.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY227—Warren
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY227—Warren County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.E. Daniell and J.H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, kaolinitic, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Baxter
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Baxter
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/1975 (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
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    15

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) channery silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 20-?-60 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2011
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) channery silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine high-continuity pores; 50 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume 30-?-80 millimeter chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2012. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635607; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635607
    Bt2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); red (10R 4/6) channery clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent dark red (10R 3/6) clay films; 30 percent by volume rounded 20-?-200 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2013. continuous - phpvsfiid 635608; continuous - phpvsfiid 635608
    Bt3—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); red (10R 4/6) channery clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent dark red (10R 3/6) clay films; 30 percent by volume rounded 20-?-200 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2014. continuous - phpvsfiid 635609; continuous - phpvsfiid 635609
    Bt4—79 to 109 centimeters (31.1 to 42.9 inches); red (10R 4/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume 5-?-120 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2015. continuous - phpvsfiid 635610; continuous - phpvsfiid 635610
    Bt5—109 to 140 centimeters (42.9 to 55.1 inches); red (10R 4/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume 5-?-120 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2016. continuous - phpvsfiid 635611; continuous - phpvsfiid 635611
    Bt6—140 to 180 centimeters (55.1 to 70.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) channery clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.0 fine roots between peds; 0.0 fine high-continuity pores; 50 percent dark red (10R 3/6) clay films; 25 percent by volume 10-?-80 millimeter chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2017. continuous - phpvsfiid 635612; continuous - phpvsfiid 635612
    Bt7—180 to 210 centimeters (70.9 to 82.7 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.0 fine pores; 1 percent manganese masses and 1 percent manganese coatings; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5. Lab sample # KY2018