IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 69KY-127-004
  • User Pedon ID: 69KY-127-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 69KY-127-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46543
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 2 miles north of Baline on East side of KY Hwy 201.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY127—Lawrence
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY640—Lawrence and Martin Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.C. Ross and John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Classificaton Date - 11/11/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Colluvium from soils formed in siltstone and shales
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/11/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Mixed hardwoods
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1336
    Bt1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1337. patchy - phpvsfiid 635034; patchy - phpvsfiid 635034
    Bt2—25 to 71 centimeters (9.8 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; 12 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1338. patchy - phpvsfiid 635035; patchy - phpvsfiid 635035
    BC—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very gravelly silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films; 20 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1339. patchy - phpvsfiid 635036; patchy - phpvsfiid 635036
    C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 25 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KY1340