IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wernock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73KY-089-045
  • User Pedon ID: 73KY-089-045
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-089-045
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46610
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 11.5 miles NW of Greenup and 2,000 feet NE of righ angle turn of gravel road on Beauty Ridge between Peter Cave Branch and North Branch of Plum Fork.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY089—Greenup
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY605—Boyd and Greenup Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wernock
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wernock
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone and shale at 79cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Forest, 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
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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1883
    AB—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1884
    Bt1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay films and 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt coats on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1885
    Bt2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1886
    Bt3—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1887
    Bt4—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) medium faint and 30 percent 5YR 4/ (5YR 4/ medium faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1888
    Bt5—69 to 79 centimeters (27.2 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silty clay; 15 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) fine faint and 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1889
    Ct—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1890
    R—97 to 119 centimeters (38.2 to 46.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1891