IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KY-011-005
  • User Pedon ID: 99KY-011-005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 99KY-011-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KY-011-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47501
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Bath County, KY; about 0.7 mile west of Reynoldsville in Bath County, about 840 feet South of KY Hwy 36; and about 200 feet west of farm road on a ridge top.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY011—Bath
  • MLRA: 121—Kentucky Bluegrass
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 18-4—Frankfort, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY011—Bath County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-B7—Owingsville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Hines
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 2/26/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum of the Tate Member limestone of the Upper Grant Lake formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 144cm
  • Geology: Tate Member member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/26/1999 (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

    DAGL

    MESA

    Dactylis glomerata

    Medicago sativa

    orchardgrass

    alfalfa

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    145 -

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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

    4

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4017
    Bt1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4018
    Bt2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent medium manganese coatings and 30 percent medium manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4019
    Bt3—64 to 112 centimeters (25.2 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent medium manganese coatings; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4020
    C—112 to 145 centimeters (44.1 to 57.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) channery silty clay; structureless massive; firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4021
    R—145 to 155 centimeters (57.1 to 61.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY4022