IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Philo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 69KY-043-001
  • User Pedon ID: 69KY-043-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 69KY-043-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 69KY-043-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46539
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 2 miles east of Grayson; 1 mile north of US Hwy 60 on Beckwith Branch; 0.5 mile east of Little Sandy River.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY043—Carter
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY043—Carter County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul M. Love and John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Philo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Philo
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Alluvium from soils formed in siltstone, shales, and sandstone
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1313
    Bw—18 to 71 centimeters (7.1 to 28.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium faint and 15 percent gray (10YR 5/1) medium faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1314
    Bg—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium faint and 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1315
    Cg—94 to 147 centimeters (37.0 to 57.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silt loam; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY1316