IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cranston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 67KY-205-001
  • User Pedon ID: 67KY-205-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 67KY-205-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 67KY-205-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46525
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 3 miles north of Poppin Rock Tunnel on KY Hwy 519; 300 yards east up hollow. Photo 7-11 east 8 inches, north 71/2 inches
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY205—Rowan
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY645—Menifee and Rowan Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cranston
  • PSC - 58 to 108 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cranston
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/1967 (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

    LITU

    QUERC

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus

    tuliptree

    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

    55

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1234
    E—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1235
    BE—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1236. patchy - phpvsfiid 610821; patchy - phpvsfiid 610821
    Bt1—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1237. patchy - phpvsfiid 610822; patchy - phpvsfiid 610822
    Bt2—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1238. patchy - phpvsfiid 610823; patchy - phpvsfiid 610823
    Bt3—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY1239