IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shrouts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86KY-069-011
  • User Pedon ID: 86KY-069-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KY-069-011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46761
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Atlas sheet #6; about 1.8 miles SW of Beechburg, 1 mile east of Fleming Creek, 0.8 miles north of Wilson Creek; 800 feet south of KY Hwy 402; X: 2,165,520 feet, Y: 342,240 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY069—Fleming
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY069—Fleming County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.Robbins, O. Whitaker, A.D. Karathanasis, S. Jacobs, K. Bates, & K. Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shrouts
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shrouts
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Calcareous shales, siltstone, and dolomite of the Preachersville Member of Drakes Formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, calcareous at 89cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: grass pasture
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2893
    Bt—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2894
    Btk1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) fine prominent mottles; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 2 percent carbonate concretions; 2 percent by volume dolomite (dolostone) fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2895
    Btk2—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) and greenish gray (5GY 6/1) clay; strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent carbonate concretions; 15 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2896
    Ck—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and olive (5Y 5/3) and greenish gray (5GY 6/1) clay; structureless massive; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 5 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2897
    Cr—89 centimeters (35.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2898