IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 67KY-175-006
  • User Pedon ID: 67KY-175-006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 67KY-175-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 67KY-175-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46523
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 38.0550778
  • Std. Longitude: -83.3429667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 3 miles north of Blaze, KY on KY Hwy 1002 to cemetery, then about 290 yards north of cemetery. Photo 6-3, east 3.5 inches, north 9.1 inches.
  • Map Unit: LsE—Latham-Shelocta-Gilpin complex, 12 to 30 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY175—Morgan
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY641—Magoffin and Morgan Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-A3—Wrigley, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.E. Avers and J.S. Austin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • 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 - Shelocta
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy colluvium derived from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pikeville Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/12/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    FAGUS

    QUERC

    TSUGA

    Fagus

    Quercus

    Tsuga

    beech

    oak

    hemlock

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    25—137

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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

    27

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    335.3

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1220
    BA—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1221
    Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1222. patchy - phpvsfiid 635020; patchy - phpvsfiid 635020
    Bt2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1223. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635021; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635021
    Bt3—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1224. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635022; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635022
    Bt4—104 to 137 centimeters (40.9 to 53.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1225. patchy - phpvsfiid 635023; patchy - phpvsfiid 635023
    C—137 to 165 centimeters (53.9 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay loam; 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and structureless massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # KY1226