IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 65KY-199-062
  • User Pedon ID: 65KY-199-062
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 65KY-199-062
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 65KY-199-062
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46492
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 2.3 miles SW of Mt. Victory on Forest Service Road 122; west at power station; 0.8 mile on Snake Pond Ridge Road.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY199—Pulaski
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY199—Pulaski County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 5/6/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 267cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/6/1965 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    PIEC2

    QUCO2

    Pinus echinata

    Quercus coccinea

    shortleaf pine

    scarlet oak

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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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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0935
    E—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam, loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0936
    Bt1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0937. patchy - phpvsfiid 635063; patchy - phpvsfiid 635063
    Bt2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0938. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635064; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635064
    Bt3—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0939. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635065; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635065
    Bt4—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0940. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635066; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635066
    Bt5—97 to 157 centimeters (38.2 to 61.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam, clay loam; 15 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) medium distinct and 15 percent 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) medium distinct and 15 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) medium distinct mottles; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0941. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635067; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635067
    C1—157 to 244 centimeters (61.8 to 96.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) medium prominent and 30 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) medium prominent mottles; structureless massive; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0942
    C2—244 to 267 centimeters (96.1 to 105.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY0943
    R—267 to 277 centimeters (105.1 to 109.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY0944