IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Egam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93KY-239-019
  • User Pedon ID: 93KY-239-019
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 93KY-239-019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 93KY-239-019
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47423
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Woodford County, KY; University of KY 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: R. Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Egam
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Egam
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/1993 (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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    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

    3.5

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    A1—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3547
    A2—38 to 76 centimeters (15.0 to 29.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3548
    Bw—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; 15 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine and 15 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY3549