IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93KY-239-005
  • User Pedon ID: 93KY-239-005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 93KY-239-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 93KY-239-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47409
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Woodford County, KY; University of Kentucky farm.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY239—Woodford
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY624—Jessamine and Woodford Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 145cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/1993 (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

    LOAR10

    POA

    Dactylis glomerata

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Poa

    orchardgrass

    tall fescue

    bluegrass

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    145 -

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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

    8

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3473
    Bt1—23 to 69 centimeters (9.1 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3474
    Bt2—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3475
    BC—89 to 145 centimeters (35.0 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3476
    R—145 centimeters (57.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3477