IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cynthiana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KY-011-010
  • User Pedon ID: 99KY-011-010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 99KY-011-010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KY-011-010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47506
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Bath County, KY; about 0.85 mile south of Reynoldsville in Bath Co., about 0.4 mile north of road along Burbridge Branch and about 280 feet uphill from drain.
  • 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: Clayey, mixed, active, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cynthiana
  • PSC - 10 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cynthiana
  • Classificaton Date - 3/22/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum of layered limestone and thin shale of the Bull Fork formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 46cm
  • Geology: Bull Fork Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/22/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    LOAR10

    THUJA

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Thuja

    tall fescue

    arborvitae

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    46 -

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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

    31

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4048
    Bt—10 to 46 centimeters (3.9 to 18.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots and 1.0 fine roots top of horizon; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4049
    R—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY4050