IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY-155-005
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY-155-005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83KY-155-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 83KY-155-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46723
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 10 miles SE of Lebanon; 1,000 yards NE of junction of Mullins Land and North Fork Rd. KCS: X: 2,177,750 feet, Y: 430,000 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY155—Marion
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY155—Marion County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37085-E2—Lebanon East, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert A. Eigel, John M. Robbins, Jr., et al.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, illitic, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • PSC - 10 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from acid shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: indurated shale, acid at 53cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/1983 (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

    PIVI2

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Pinus virginiana

    tall fescue

    Virginia pine

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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

    bedrock, lithic

    —

    53 -

    —
    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

    7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2629
    Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2630
    Bt2—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2631
    BC—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very channery silty clay; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 35 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2632
    R—53 centimeters (20.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2633