IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elk
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93KY-239-016
  • User Pedon ID: 93KY-239-016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 93KY-239-016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 93KY-239-016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47420
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Woodford County, KY; University of Kentucky farm; in a sinkhole bottom.
  • 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

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elk
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elk
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: sinkhole
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/1993 (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

    POA

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Poa

    tall fescue

    bluegrass

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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 36 centimeters (0.0 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3533
    Bt1—36 to 69 centimeters (14.2 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3534
    Bt2—69 to 132 centimeters (27.2 to 52.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3535
    Bt3—132 to 198 centimeters (52.0 to 78.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3536
    Bt4—198 to 224 centimeters (78.0 to 88.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KY3537