IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tilsit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 58KY-205-001
  • User Pedon ID: 58KY-205-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 58KY-205-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 58KY-205-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46476
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 38.2378311
  • Std. Longitude: -83.3390427
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Robert S. Bishop farm across from Little Brushy School on Hwy 32; 80 yards north of Hwy 32; 49 yards east of farm road from Hwy to barns.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY205—Rowan
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY645—Menifee and Rowan Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-B5—Farmers, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilsit
  • PSC - 36 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilsit
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from interbedded acid siltstone and shale (Mississippian) with possible loess addition
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent shale, unspecified at 218cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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

    fragipan

    bedrock, lithic

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    61 - 104

    218 -

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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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0816
    AB—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0817
    BA—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0818
    Bt—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) silt loam; 1 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) fine faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0819
    Bx1—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; strong very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0820
    Bx2—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) silt loam; strong very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0821
    C1—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) and light gray (N 7/), silt loam; structureless massive; very firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # KY0822
    C2—135 to 168 centimeters (53.1 to 66.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and light gray (N 7/), silty clay loam; structureless massive; very firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1. Lab sample # KY0823
    C3—168 to 191 centimeters (66.1 to 75.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) and light gray (10YR 7/2) silty clay; 15 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) mottles; fragments. Lab sample # KY0824
    C4—191 to 218 centimeters (75.2 to 85.8 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # KY0825
    R—218 centimeters (85.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY0826