IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wheeling
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 96KY-015-003
  • User Pedon ID: 96KY-015-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 96KY-015-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47460
  • Print Date: 4/26/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Flaig farm, Hwy 536 west of Union.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY015—Boone
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY603—Boone, Campbell, and Kenton Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A.D. Karathanasis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheeling
  • PSC - 35 to 85 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wheeling
  • Classificaton Date - 5/3/1996
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/3/1996 (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
    • 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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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3781
    BA—17 to 35 centimeters (6.7 to 13.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3782
    Bt1—35 to 67 centimeters (13.8 to 26.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) iron depletions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3783
    Bt2—67 to 95 centimeters (26.4 to 37.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) iron depletions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3784
    Bt3—95 to 125 centimeters (37.4 to 49.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) mottles; moderate subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) iron depletions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3785
    BC—125 to 165 centimeters (49.2 to 65.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) mottles; platy structure; very firm; 1 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) iron depletions; fragments. Lab sample # KY3786