IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clifftop
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10KY628FSC001
  • User Pedon ID: 10KY125FSC001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 10KY628FSC001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 10KY-125-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46427
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 36.9802513
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2722473
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Laurel County, Kentucky; Daniel Boone National Forest; Holly Bay Area; about 0.15 miles north of camping area dumping station.
  • Map Unit: LbC—Latham silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY125—Laurel
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY628—Laurel and Rockcastle Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36084-H3—Sawyer, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harry Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clifftop
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2016
  • Classifier - McIntosh, Doug
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale and siltstone at 99cm
  • Geology: Lee Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) and NASIS Group Name (6-LON London, KY POINT) was transferred to (MLRA12_Amherst) and (NE-LON London, KY POINT) respectively to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/2010 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 29
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    ACRU

    LITU

    PIEC2

    QUAL

    QUVE

    SMILA2

    TORAR

    Acer rubrum

    Acer rubrum

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Pinus echinata

    Quercus alba

    Quercus velutina

    Smilax

    Toxicodendron radicans ssp. radicans

    red maple

    red maple

    tuliptree

    shortleaf pine

    white oak

    black oak

    greenbrier

    eastern poison ivy

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    99 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    3—18

    18—99

    99—

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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

    6

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    301

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0451; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BE—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0452; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0453; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 550629; patchy - phpvsfiid 550629
    Bt2—41 to 77 centimeters (16.1 to 30.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-37-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0454; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550630; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550630
    Bt3—77 to 99 centimeters (30.3 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-37-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0455; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550631; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550631
    Cr—99 to 109 centimeters (39.0 to 42.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.