IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lakin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY-135-010
  • User Pedon ID: 90KY-135-010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 90KY-135-010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 90KY-135-010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46814
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.6486588
  • Std. Longitude: -83.6285019
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lewis County, KY; Atlas sheet 6; about 1.7 miles south of Sandhill, about 720 feet east of Sandhill Road, about 500 feet west of Crooked Creek, on bluff above floodplain. X: 2,177,400 feet, Y: 418,800 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY135—Lewis
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY135—Lewis County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs and D. Dotson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Lamellic Udipsamments
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lakin
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lakin
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandy alluvium on the Ohio River flood-plain, Quaternary Geologic System
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale, calcareous at 152cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    ACSA3

    FAGR

    QURU

    Acer saccharum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Quercus rubra

    sugar maple

    American beech

    northern red oak

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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    152 -

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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

    60

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3223
    Bw1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular, and structureless single grain; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3224
    Bw2—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; structureless single grain; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3225
    Bw3—69 to 107 centimeters (27.2 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; structureless single grain; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains between sand grains; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3226
    C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) gravelly sand; structureless single grain; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3227
    2Cr—152 centimeters (59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3228