IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KY-015-006
  • User Pedon ID: 97KY-015-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KY-015-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47472
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Ron and Greg Vest's farm.
  • 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, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • PSC - 18 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/1997
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum (calcareous shale, layers of limestone, beds of siltstone)
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent limestone, unspecified at 125cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/1997 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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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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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate granular structure; friable; 1 percent manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3847
    Bt1—18 to 31 centimeters (7.1 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent manganese masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3848
    Bt2—31 to 54 centimeters (12.2 to 21.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; weak prismatic structure; firm; 10 percent manganese masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3849
    C—54 to 125 centimeters (21.3 to 49.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; structureless massive; very firm; 10 percent manganese masses; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3850
    Cr—125 centimeters (49.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3851