IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY-135-016
  • User Pedon ID: 90KY-135-016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 90KY-135-016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 90KY-135-016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46820
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 38.6917152
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5540543
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lewis County, KY; Atlas sheet 3B; about 3.1 miles northwest of the intersection of KY-57 and KY-8 at Concord, about 1,200 feet north of KY-8, about 100 feet west of farm road, and about 150 feet south of the CSX railroad tracks. X: 2,198,000 feet, Y: 434,000 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: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elk
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elk
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Mixed alluvium of the Ohio River flood-plain, Quaternary Geologic system
  • Landform: terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    DAGL

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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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
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    A—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3261
    Bt1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3262
    Bt2—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3263
    Bt3—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3264
    BC—114 to 135 centimeters (44.9 to 53.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3265
    C—135 to 165 centimeters (53.1 to 65.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loamy sand; structureless single grain; very friable; 10 percent clay bridges between sand grains; fragments. Lab sample # KY3266