IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cranston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 67KY-205-003
  • User Pedon ID: 67KY-205-003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 67KY-205-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 67KY-205-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46527
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 3 miles north of Cogswell on Forest Service Road #16 and 400 yards east up hollow. Photo 5-10 east 3 5/8 inches, north 3 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 - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cranston
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/1967
  • 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: 5/26/1967 (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

    QUERC

    Quercus

    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

    50

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1245
    BA—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1246
    Bt1—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1247. patchy - phpvsfiid 610824; patchy - phpvsfiid 610824
    Bt2—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1248. patchy - phpvsfiid 610825; patchy - phpvsfiid 610825
    Bt3—84 to 122 centimeters (33.1 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint mottles; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1249. patchy - phpvsfiid 610826; patchy - phpvsfiid 610826
    BC—122 to 140 centimeters (48.0 to 55.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) gravelly silt loam; 15 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) medium distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY1250