IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cloverlick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KY-025-002
  • User Pedon ID: 04KY-025-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04KY-025-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KY-025-UK2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46350
  • 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: 37.4640961
  • Std. Longitude: -83.1558914
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Breathitt County, KY; Robinson Forest, Boardinghouse Branch.
  • 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: Doug McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cloverlick
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cloverlick
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Breathitt Formation (Pennsylvanian)
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale and siltstone at 135cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/2004 (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

    LITU

    QUAL

    Juglans nigra

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus alba

    black walnut

    tuliptree

    white oak

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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    135 -

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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

    55

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    70

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # KY0114
    A—3 to 20 centimeters (1.2 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0115
    BA—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0116
    Bw1—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very channery sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0117
    Bw2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0118
    Bw3—76 to 94 centimeters (29.9 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0119
    Bw4—94 to 135 centimeters (37.0 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0120
    Cr—135 to 157 centimeters (53.1 to 61.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY0121