IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rigley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 67KY-205-005
  • User Pedon ID: 67KY-205-005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 67KY-205-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 67KY-205-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46529
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 1 mile west of Morehead on KY Hwy 32 and 200 yards south. Photo 6-8, east 5.25 inches, north 2.5 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

  • Describers Name: P.E. Avers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rigley
  • PSC - 56 to 106 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rigley
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Mississippian age shale and siltstone colluvium
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent siltstone, unspecified at 152cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/27/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Mixed oaks
  • 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); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1258
    E—5 to 36 centimeters (2.0 to 14.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1259
    B/E—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, silt coats; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1260. patchy - phpvsfiid 635011; patchy - phpvsfiid 635011
    Bt1—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak coarse granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine pores; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, silt coats and 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1261. patchy - phpvsfiid 635013; patchy - phpvsfiid 635013
    Bt2—79 to 130 centimeters (31.1 to 51.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.0 very fine pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1262. patchy - phpvsfiid 635015; patchy - phpvsfiid 635015
    BC—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # KY1263
    R—152 to 162 centimeters (59.8 to 63.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1264