IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Handshoe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KY119 Handshoe-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 05KY119 Handshoe-OSD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 05KY119 Handshoe-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KY-119-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46360
  • 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: 37.3917351
  • Std. Longitude: -82.8468094
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: On a wooded side slope in Thornsberry Branch, 50 feet north of a gas will in a road cut, 0.8 miles southwest of the confluence of Thornsberry Branch and Caney Creek, 2 miles north of Pippa Passes in Knott County, KY.
  • Map Unit: FaF—Fedscreek-Shelocta-Handshoe complex, 30 to 80 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY119—Knott
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY626—Knott and Letcher Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37082-D7—Wayland, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Patrick Aldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Handshoe (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Handshoe
  • Classificaton Date - 4/20/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy-skeletal colluvium derived from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Geology: Breathitt formation of the Pennsylvania group.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent flat angular indurated 150- to 380-millimeter sandstone, unspecified, 5.00 percent flat angular indurated 2- to 150-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/20/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    CARYA

    FAGUS

    LITU

    SAAL5

    Carya

    Fagus

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Sassafras albidum

    hybrid hickory

    beech

    tuliptree

    sassafras

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—36

    36—203

    —36—

    —167—
    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

    60

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    310.9

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    1087

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    157

    11.6

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    153391

    GRAYSON 3 SW

    COOP
    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; very channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout and 7.0 coarse roots throughout; 45 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3596; moist when described; observed in cut
    Oi—5 to 0 centimeters (2.0 to 0.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; noneffervescent, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in cut
    E—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior very channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 0.7 fine tubular pores; 35 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3597; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bw1—36 to 81 centimeters (14.2 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior very channery sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 150-250-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3598; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bw2—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior very channery loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots throughout; 45 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3599; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bw3—122 to 147 centimeters (48.0 to 57.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior channery sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3600; moist when described; observed in cut
    BC—150 to 168 centimeters (59.1 to 66.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior very channery sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 45 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3601; moist when described; observed in cut
    CB—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior very channery sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 50 percent by volume flat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in cut