IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Newark
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93KY-239-007
  • User Pedon ID: 93KY-239-007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 93KY-239-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 93KY-239-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47411
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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-silty, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Newark
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Newark
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: sinkhole
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 229cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/20/1993 (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

    LOAR10

    TRRE3

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Trifolium repens

    tall fescue

    white clover

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    229 -

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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

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    A1—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3482
    A2—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3483
    Bg1—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3484
    Bw—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3485
    Bg2—81 to 137 centimeters (31.9 to 53.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) silty clay loam; 15 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine and 15 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium mottles; weak medium platy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3486
    Bg3—137 to 168 centimeters (53.9 to 66.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) silty clay loam; 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine and 30 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3487
    BC—168 to 180 centimeters (66.1 to 70.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse and 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium and 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) coarse mottles; weak fine platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3488
    C—180 to 229 centimeters (70.9 to 90.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) coarse mottles; structureless massive; very firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3489
    R—229 centimeters (90.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3490