IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nicholson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 98KY-015-006
  • User Pedon ID: 98KY-015-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 98KY-015-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47483
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Davis' 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-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholson
  • PSC - 19 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nicholson
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum (loess over glacial till)
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/1998 (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
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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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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3908
    Bt1—19 to 34 centimeters (7.5 to 13.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; weak subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3909
    Bt2—34 to 48 centimeters (13.4 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles; moderate subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3910
    Btx1—48 to 65 centimeters (18.9 to 25.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak angular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent manganese masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3911
    Btx2—65 to 91 centimeters (25.6 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) mottles; weak angular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent manganese masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3912
    Btx3—91 centimeters (35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) mottles; moderate angular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KY3913