IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rigley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KY-025-001
  • User Pedon ID: 04KY-025-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04KY-025-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KY-025-UK1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46349
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.5410919
  • Std. Longitude: -83.3439026
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Breathitt County, KY; Walnut Grove University of Kentucky Quicksand Experiment Station next to road.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY025—Breathitt
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY025—Breathitt County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Blanford
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Humic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rigley
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rigley
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Breathitt Formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/2004 (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

    JUNI

    Juglans nigra

    black walnut

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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 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0107
    AB—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate coarse granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0108
    Bt1—23 to 79 centimeters (9.1 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0109
    Bt2—79 to 124 centimeters (31.1 to 48.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam, sandy clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0110
    Bw—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent pale red (2.5YR 6/2) masses of reduced iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0111
    Cg1—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); 60 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; structureless massive; very firm; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0112
    Cg2—183 to 203 centimeters (72.0 to 79.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) silt loam; structureless massive; very firm; 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent manganese coatings; fragments. Lab sample # KY0113