IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 76KY-025-002
  • User Pedon ID: 76KY-025-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 76KY-025-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 76KY-025-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46634
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 37.4764557
  • Std. Longitude: -83.1651535
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Robinson Forest, near head of Little Mill seat watershed, hot slope, 35 feet above logging road.
  • 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 Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Formed in weathered product of colluvial material from acid sandstone, siltstone, and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone and shale at 119cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/6/1976 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUERC

    Quercus

    oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    119 -

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    45

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2047
    AB—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2048
    BA—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2049
    Bt1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume 5-?-10 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2050. continuous - phpvsfiid 638079; continuous - phpvsfiid 638079
    Bt2—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2051. continuous - phpvsfiid 638080; continuous - phpvsfiid 638080
    BC—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2052
    R—119 to 129 centimeters (46.9 to 50.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.