IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Latham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2014KY131001
  • User Pedon ID: 2014KY131001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 78KY-121-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46657
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 37.1381500
  • Std. Longitude: -83.2520500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In an area of Dekalb-Rock outcrop-Latham association, steep on a ridge between Dicks Branch and Polls Creek; 1 mile (airline) west of Daley in Leslie County, Kentucky.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY131—Leslie
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY633—Leslie and Perry Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-B3—Hyden East, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roy Rice, Raymond Hayes & Steve Jacobs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Latham
  • Classificaton Date - 3/10/2014
  • Classifier - McIntosh, Doug
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from clayey shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale, clayey at 84cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/10/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Roy Rice, Raymond Hayes & Steve Jacobs
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    84 -

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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

    0—8

    8—84

    84—

    3—8—15

    15—76—97

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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

    25

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    COOP
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonplastic; common fine roots and common coarse roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2197; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—8 to 48 centimeters (3.1 to 18.9 inches); silty clay loam; moderate angular blocky, and moderate subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly plastic; common fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat angular moderately coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter shale, clayey fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2198; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1255613; patchy - phpvsfiid 1255613
    Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); parachannery silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm, moderately plastic; few fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat angular moderately coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter shale, clayey fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2199; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1255611; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1255611
    Bt3—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); parachannery silty clay; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) medium distinct reticulate mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, very plastic; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions; 25 percent by volume flat angular moderately coherent cemented 2-50-150 millimeter shale, clayey fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2200; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 1255612; patchy - phpvsfiid 1255612
    Cr—84 centimeters (33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) bedrock; structureless massive; fragments. Lab sample # KY2202; observed in push tube