IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cutshin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 76KY-025-004
  • User Pedon ID: 76KY-025-004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 76KY-025-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 76KY-025-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46636
  • 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: 37.4695091
  • Std. Longitude: -83.1623764
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Robinson Forest; along south side of Little Millseat watershed.
  • 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 Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cutshin
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cutshin
  • 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, unspecified at 122cm
  • 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

    LITU

    QUERC

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus

    tuliptree

    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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    122 -

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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

    65

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2059
    A2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2060
    BA—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2061
    Bt1—38 to 69 centimeters (15.0 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2062. continuous - phpvsfiid 635498; continuous - phpvsfiid 635498
    Bt2—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2063. continuous - phpvsfiid 635499; continuous - phpvsfiid 635499
    Bt3—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KY2064
    R—122 centimeters (48.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.