IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Itmann
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KY650004
  • User Pedon ID: 07KY650004
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T1607KY650
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0505
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19295
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 36.6648472
  • Std. Longitude: -84.5296667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area; McCreary County, Kentucky; Blue Heron area, off Heron Loop trail. Kentucky Waypoint 357.
  • Map Unit: 99—Itmann very parachannery loam, 4 to 55 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY147—McCreary
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN650—Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Kentucky and Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36084-F5—Barthell, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harry Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Itmann
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Itmann
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mine spoil, coal extraction derived from coal
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Anthropogenic Feature: spoil pile
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alvey Creek formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 25
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—8

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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

    60

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) very parachannery loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter coal fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—5 to 46 centimeters (2.0 to 18.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) very parachannery loam; structureless massive; firm; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-200 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-200 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-200 millimeter coal fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog.; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—46 to 155 centimeters (18.1 to 61.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) extremely parachannery loam; structureless massive; firm; 1.0 medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subangular 2-76-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume flat subangular 2-150-379 millimeter coal fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog.; slightly moist when described; observed in auger, bucket