IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71KY-025-008
  • User Pedon ID: 71KY-025-008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 71KY-025-008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46568
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.4686611
  • Std. Longitude: -83.1405694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Robinson Forest; 1.25 miles NE of Robinson Forest Headquarters, at the head of Tom's Branch. Site sampled on mid-slpe northern exposure, 75 yards east of site 71KY-013-009.
  • Map Unit: uCskF—Cloverlick-Shelocta-Kimper complex, 20 to 80 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY025—Breathitt
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY025—Breathitt County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-D2—Noble, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty colluvium and/or clayey residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/6/1971 (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
    • 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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    396.2

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1557
    BA—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1558
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1559
    Bt2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 35 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1560
    2Bt3—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and gray (10YR 6/1) gravelly silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 8 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1561
    2Bt4—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) very gravelly silty clay; 15 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) medium distinct and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 50 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume coal fragments and 30 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1562
    2Bt5—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) gravelly silty clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 50 percent clay films; 25 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1563
    2C—114 to 150 centimeters (44.9 to 59.1 inches); gray (N 5/), very gravelly silty clay; structureless massive; very firm; 50 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KY1564