IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allegheny
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KY-025-004
  • User Pedon ID: 04KY-025-004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04KY-025-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KY-025-UK4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46352
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.5400925
  • Std. Longitude: -83.3419037
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Walnut Grove, KY; University of Kentucky Quicksand Experiment Station next to creek. Lat. 37.540N; Long. 83.342W.
  • 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: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Allegheny
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allegheny
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Breathitt Formation
  • Landform: terrace
  • 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

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0129
    AB—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic stains; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0130
    Bt1—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0131
    Bt2—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0132
    Bt3—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0133
    2BC—104 to 160 centimeters (40.9 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely firm; 0.0 very fine roots; 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0134
    2C—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) extremely channery sandy loam; structureless single grain; friable; 5 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; fragments. Lab sample # KY0135