IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 80KY-161-004
  • User Pedon ID: 80KY-161-004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 80KY-161-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 80KY-161-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46689
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 750 feet SE of barn; 250 feet south of North Fork of the Licking River; 3,100 feet NE of the junction of US 62 and Murphysville Road at Murphysville; 7 miles SW of Maysville, KY. X: 2,112,000 feet, Y: 390,150 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY161—Mason
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY161—Mason County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-E7—Mays Lick, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • PSC - 18 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eden
  • Classificaton Date - 5/28/1980
  • 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: summit
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent limestone and shale at 61cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/28/1980 (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

    DAGL

    LOAR10

    Dactylis glomerata

    Lolium arundinaceum

    orchardgrass

    tall fescue

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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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

    8

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-?-100 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2419
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) channery silty clay loam; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) clay films; 20 percent by volume flat 50-?-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2420. continuous - phpvsfiid 638311; continuous - phpvsfiid 638311
    Bt2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) flaggy silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) clay films; 15 percent by volume flat 75-?-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat 75-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2421. continuous - phpvsfiid 638312; continuous - phpvsfiid 638312
    Cr—61 to 102 centimeters (24.0 to 40.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2422