IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tilsit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 54KY-011-002
  • User Pedon ID: 54KY-011-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 54KY-011-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46439
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Elmer Hargis farm, Salt Lick, KY; Located 7 miles north of Owingsville, KY on US 60. Pit is located on rear of farm in woods south of gravel road running west from Hwy 60 at Hargis' store. Knobs upland.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY011—Bath
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY011—Bath County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilsit
  • PSC - 25 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilsit
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/1954
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from Greenish-gray shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent shale, unspecified at 178cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/20/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Hardwood and conifer scrub
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    fragipan

    bedrock, lithic

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    56 - 178

    178 -

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    Setting and Climate
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    3

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), white (10YR 8/1) and very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0520
    BA—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 8/2) and white (10YR 8/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0521
    Bt—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0522
    Btx1—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) silty clay loam; 15 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine distinct mottles; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; brittle; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0523
    Btx2—71 to 178 centimeters (28.0 to 70.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) silty clay loam; 15 percent gray (10YR 5/1) medium distinct mottles; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; brittle; fragments. Lab sample # KY0524
    R—178 centimeters (70.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # KY0525