IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lowell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KY-011-009
  • User Pedon ID: 99KY-011-009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 99KY-011-009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KY-011-009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47505
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Bath County, KY; about 0.4 mile NW of Reynoldsville in Bath Co.; about 800 feet north of KY Hwy 36 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 - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lowell
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum of layered limestone of the upper Grant Lake formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 104cm
  • Geology: Upper Grant Lake Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/17/1999 (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

    ANVI2

    DAGL

    LOAR10

    POA

    Andropogon virginicus

    Dactylis glomerata

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Poa

    broomsedge bluestem

    orchardgrass

    tall fescue

    bluegrass

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    104 -

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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

    6

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4041
    Bt1—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4042
    Bt2—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4043
    Bt3—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4044
    BC—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4045
    C—91 to 104 centimeters (35.8 to 40.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) channery silty clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4046
    R—104 to 114 centimeters (40.9 to 44.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY4047