IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilpin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 72KY-025-010
  • User Pedon ID: 72KY-025-010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 72KY-025-010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46582
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.4719417
  • Std. Longitude: -83.1580583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Robinson Forest; south slope of traverse number 5-11S, upper 1/3 of slope.
  • Map Unit: zSgE—Shelocta-Handshoe-Fedscreek complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes, 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 - Gilpin
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 71cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1972 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    bedrock, lithic

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    71 - 81

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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 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) channery silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume 50-?-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1674
    AB—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1675
    Bt1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films; 1 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1676
    Bt2—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; 20 percent by volume 25-?-300 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1677
    Bt3—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) channery silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume 25-?-300 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 25-?-300 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1678
    R—71 to 81 centimeters (28.0 to 31.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1679