IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986KY197004
  • User Pedon ID: 86KY197004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0464
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59759
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.8138885
  • Std. Longitude: -83.9533310
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: From the Intersection of State HWY 15 and CR1057 in Clay city 3 mi S to Vaughns Mill W 2.3 mi on Frames
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY197—Powell

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Sobecki, A. Karathanasis, R. Hayes
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 32 to 82 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    36

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    1A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02405. many fine roots; many coarse roots
    1AB—6 to 14 centimeters (2.4 to 5.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02406. 2-3% angular fine sandstone fragments less than 75 mm in size.; common fine roots; common coarse roots
    1BA—14 to 32 centimeters (5.5 to 12.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02407. Few less than 1% angular sandstone fragments less than 75 mm in size, 10% randomly oriented black shale fragments.; common fine roots; common coarse roots
    1Bt1—32 to 53 centimeters (12.6 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02408. 5% black shale channers greater than 75 mm, 10% less than 75 mm, inclined to the horizontal.; common fine roots; common coarse roots; common medium distinct 5YR56 mottles; common medium distinct 5YR58 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221917; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221917
    2Bt2—53 to 92 centimeters (20.9 to 36.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior channery silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; faint yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P02409. 15% black shale channers greater than 75 mm, 15% less than 75 mm, most oriented horizontally.; common fine and medium roots; few coarse roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221918; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 221918
    2R—92 to 107 centimeters (36.2 to 42.1 inches); fragments. Thinly bedded hard black shale, horizontally bedded.