IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zenith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KY231 Zenith-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 06KY231 Zenith-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 81KY-231-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46364
  • 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: 36.6158333
  • Std. Longitude: -84.7805557
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 275 yards west of Kentucky Highway 167 and 1,520 yards north of the border with Tennessee in a north facing cove at the head of a small drainageway along Flint Fork of Langham Creek in Wayne County, Kentucky; 19.5 miles south of the junction of Kentucky Highways 167 and 92 in the county seat of Monticello.
  • Map Unit: SMF—Shelocta-Muse-Cutshin complex, steep
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY231—Wayne
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY231—Wayne County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36084-E7—Sharp Place, Tennessee

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Doug McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Humudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zenith (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/15/2011
  • Classifier - Jason Nemecek
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cutshin
  • Classificaton Date - 3/31/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy colluvium derived from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: cove
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Paragon Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/31/2009 (entry creation 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—30

    51—152

    —30—

    —101—
    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

    75

    —

    —

    393.2

    —

    350

    1299

    —

    180

    13.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY5524

    Monticello 3 NE

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2549
    AB—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dry; loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 3 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2550
    BA—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 5.0 fine pores; 35 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2551
    Bw1—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint organic stains on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2552
    Bw2—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 9 percent by volume 25-120-254 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2553
    Bw3—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 25-50-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2554
    BC—152 to 203 centimeters (59.8 to 79.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume 25-50-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # KY2555