IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983KY155005
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY155005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1983KY155005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0902
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53683
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Marion County, Kentucky, about 10 miles southeast of Lebanon; 1,000 yards northeast of junction of Mullins Land and North Fork Road. KCS: 2,177,750; 430,000 (Lebanon East Quad.).
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY155—Marion
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY155—Marion County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert A. Eigel and John M. Robbins, Jr.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Classificaton Date - 12/29/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum of weathered black shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • 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 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    PIVI2

    Pinus virginiana

    Virginia pine

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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

    7

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04591
    Bt2—23 to 40 centimeters (9.1 to 15.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04592
    BC—40 to 53 centimeters (15.7 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very channery silty clay; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P04593
    R—53 centimeters (20.9 inches); fragments.