IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Christian
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87KY-045-002
  • User Pedon ID: 87KY-045-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 87KY-045-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46772
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 37.2389603
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7290878
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3.3 miles SE of Mount Olive, KY; on Brown Ridge 1.1 miles SE of Brown Cemetery on Gravel Rd.; 75 feet south of barn.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY045—Casey
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY045—Casey County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.S. Evans, J.P. Fehr, and L.J. Whitaker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Christian
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Christian
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Marine from sandstone-siltstone material
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent limestone, unspecified at 108cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Crops
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    10

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2969
    Bt1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2970. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639131; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639131
    Bt2—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 0.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2971. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639132; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639132
    BC—76 to 108 centimeters (29.9 to 42.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots around fragments; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2972. patchy - phpvsfiid 639133; patchy - phpvsfiid 639133
    Crt—108 to 170 centimeters (42.5 to 66.9 inches); yellow (10YR 7/8) bedrock; 30 percent clay films on rock fragments; fragments. Lab sample # KY2973. continuous - phpvsfiid 639134; continuous - phpvsfiid 639134