IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 02KY195004
  • User Pedon ID: 02KY195004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0647
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52884
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.5036111
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2330556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Modal pedon of Dekalb channery fine sandy loam in Pike County; in an area of MaF—Marrowbone-Dekalb-Muskingum complex, 30 to 80 percent slopes, very rocky; about 6.2 miles east of Kimper, KY on a ridgetop at the head of Blackberry Fork of Johns Creek; USGS Matewan, KY 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle. On Soil Survey Atlas Map Sheet #7.
  • Map Unit: MaF—Marrowbone-Clifftop-Matewan complex, 35 to 75 percent slopes, very rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY195—Pike
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY195—Pike County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37082-E2—Matewan, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Kelley & M. Horvath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • PSC - 25 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/3/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 70cm
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    70 - 95

    - 25 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    8—54

    70—95

    —8—

    —46—

    —25—
    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

    70

    —

    —

    683

    —

    135

    1132

    —

    188

    14.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    156353

    PIKEVILLE

    SA COOP
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very channery fine sandy loam; 68 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 2 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 250-410-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 16 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 5-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-140-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03192; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very channery fine sandy loam; 67 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots; 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 11 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 250-410-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-140-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03193; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—18 to 54 centimeters (7.1 to 21.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery fine sandy loam; 67 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 250-410-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-140-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03194; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—54 to 70 centimeters (21.3 to 27.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely flaggy fine sandy loam; 62 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 9 percent clay; single grain; loose; 2 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 250-410-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-140-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 93P03195; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—70 to 95 centimeters (27.6 to 37.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small