LOCATION FAYWOOD KY+OH VA WVEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
TYPICAL PEDON: Faywood silt loam--on a smooth 10 percent side slopes in pasture.
(Colors are for moist soil.)
Ap--0 to 6 inches; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; many fine roots; slightly acid; clear smooth boundary. (3 to 8 inches thick)
Bt1--6 to 21 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, plastic; common fine roots; thin continuous clay films in root channels and on faces of peds; few fine black concretions; medium acid; gradual wavy boundary. (9 to 24 inches thick)
Bt2--21 to 30 inches; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; common fine faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, plastic; few fine roots; thin continuous clay films in root channels and on faces of peds; few fine black concretions; medium acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (0 to 15 inches thick)
R--30 inches; limestone interbedded with calcareous shale.
TYPE LOCATION: Woodford County, Kentucky; 600 yards south of Scott's Ferry Road, about 1.6 miles west of junction of Scott's Ferry Road and Kentucky Highway 33; about 3.8 miles southwest of Versailles.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness and depth to bedrock is 20 to 40 inches. Flagstones and channery fragments of limestone and shale range from 0 to 15 percent in the solum and up to 35 percent in the C horizon. The reaction ranges from mildly alkaline through strongly acid.
The Ap horizon has hue of 10YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 2 to 4 except in severely eroded areas the hue, value, and chroma are like that the of B horizon. A few pedons have an A horizon less than 7 inches thick, or with hue of 10YR, value of 3, and chroma of 2 or 4. The A horizon is silt loam or silty clay loam except in some severely eroded areas they are silty clay; structure is weak or moderate, very fine through medium granular or subangular blocky; consistence is friable or very friable.
When present, a BA horizon 2 to 6 inches thick with hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 3 to 5. Texture is silt loam or silty clay loam. They have weak or moderate, very fine through medium subangular blocky or granular structure and are friable or firm.
The Bt horizon has hue of 7.5YR through 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 4 through 8, the lower part is commonly mottled in shades of brown or olive and a few pedons are mottled with chroma of 2 below 10 inches but may have chroma of 3. It is silty clay, clay, or heavy silty clay loam; structure ranges from weak through strong, very fine through medium angular or subangular blocky; consistence is firm or very firm, sticky or very sticky and plastic.
The BC or C horizons, if present, have a color and a texture like the lower part of the Bt horizons.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Beasley, Bland, Bledsoe, Bonnell, Brashear, Bratton, Briggsville, Brookside, Bucklick, Caneyville, Chrome, Derinda, Donahue, Eden, Edenton, Elba, Eldean, Estate, Fredonia, Gunlock, Hagerstown, Heitt, Kewaunee, Lamoille, Logantville, Lowell, Markland, Medary, Miamian, Milton, Ozaukee, Shrouts, Upshur, Vandalia, Vincent, Woodsfield and Wynn Series. Beasley, Derinda, Eden, Edenton, Shrouts, and Wynn soils have paralithic contact at 20 to 40 inches. Bland, Caneyville, Fredonia, Hagerstown, Heitt, Kewaunee, Upshur, Vandalia and Vincent soils have hue redder than 7.5YR in at least some part of the B horizon. Bonnell, Brashear, Brookside, Medary, and Woodsfield soils have sola more than 40 inches thick. Bratton soils have a lithologic discontinuity at 10 to 22 inches. Bledsoe, Briggsville, Bucklick, Estate, Gunlock, Lamoille, Logantville, Lowell, Miamian and Ozaukee soils lack a lithic or paralithic contact within a depth of 40 inches. Chrome soils have sola less than 20 inches thick. Donahue soils have more than 20 percent sand in the upper part of the solum. Elba soils are more than 40 inches to paralithic contact. Eldean soils have stratified sand and gravel at 20 to 40 inches. Markland soils have stratified lacustrine C horizons below 20 to 44 inches. Melton soils have B horizons formed in glacial till.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Faywood soils are on ridgetops and side slopes of dissected uplands. Some areas have a few bedrock outcrops and some are karst. Slopes range from 2 to 60 percent. These soils formed mostly in residuum of interbedded limestone and shale, but in some areas the limestone and shale is interbedded with siltstone. Mean annual temperature ranges from 53 to 56 degrees F., and the mean annual precipitation ranges from 40 to 52 inches.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Cynthiana, Lowell, and Nicholson series. Cynthiana soils have bedrock at a depth of less than 20 inches. Lowell soils have a solum thickness of more than 40 inches. Nicholson soils have a fragipan.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained. Runoff is medium or rapid and permeability is moderately slow to slow.
USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used mostly for growing hay and pasture. Some areas are used for growing corn, small grains, and tobacco. A few areas are idle or wooded. Native vegetation was dominantly upland oaks, hickory, black walnut, black locust, white ash, beech, hackberry and eastern redcedar.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and possibly Indiana and Virginia. The series is of large extent with a total of roughly 200,000 acres.
MLRA OFFICE RESPONSIBLE: Lexington, Kentucky
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Harrison County, Kentucky, 1965.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon - 0 to 6 inches (Ap).
Argillic horizon - 6 to 54 inches (Bt1, Bt2).
Lithic contact is at 30 inches.