IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 69KY-175-001
  • User Pedon ID: 69KY-175-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 69KY-175-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46547
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 2 miles south of West Liberty, 300 yards north of KY Hwy 191 on east side of US Hwy 463.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY175—Morgan
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY641—Magoffin and Morgan Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul M. Love and John H. Newton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 30 to 80 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 shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountain
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent shale, unspecified at 137cm
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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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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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1362
    BA—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-?-10 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1363
    Bt1—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 15 percent clay films; 8 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1364. patchy - phpvsfiid 635039; patchy - phpvsfiid 635039
    Bt2—58 to 91 centimeters (22.8 to 35.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1365. patchy - phpvsfiid 635040; patchy - phpvsfiid 635040
    BC—91 to 114 centimeters (35.8 to 44.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) very gravelly silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent clay films; 20 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1366. patchy - phpvsfiid 635041; patchy - phpvsfiid 635041
    C—114 to 137 centimeters (44.9 to 53.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; structureless massive; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1367
    R—137 to 165 centimeters (53.9 to 65.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1368