IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marrowbone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 65KY-125-027
  • User Pedon ID: 65KY-125-027
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 65KY-125-027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 65KY-125-027
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46484
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 37.1363000
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2218694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: SCD. 2 miles sout of KY Hwy 80 on KY Hwy 1226.
  • Map Unit: SkC—Steinsburg sandy loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY125—Laurel
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY628—Laurel and Rockcastle Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37084-B2—Bernstadt, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marrowbone
  • PSC - 25 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marrowbone
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 89cm
  • Geology: Corbin Sandstone Member member of the Grundy Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/1965 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    CARYA

    PIVI2

    QUAL

    Carya

    Pinus virginiana

    Quercus alba

    hybrid hickory

    Virginia pine

    white oak

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    89 -

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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

    7

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    385.6

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; loose; 10.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0871
    A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0872
    Bw1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0873
    Bw2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0874
    BC—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) loamy sand; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to structureless single grain; very friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # KY0875
    C—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) sand; structureless single grain; brittle; 0.5 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0876
    R—89 to 99 centimeters (35.0 to 39.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY0877