IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982KY195002
  • User Pedon ID: 82KY195002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0700
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53487
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 37.4864540
  • Std. Longitude: -82.5884705
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 3,000 feet SW of the intersection of Dog Fork and Hurricane Creek about 5.3 mi W of Pikeville, Kentucky.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY195—Pike

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. M. Robbins, Jr., G. Kelley, and J. Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid Typic Udorthents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid Typic Udorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    2

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    1AC—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); 90 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03466. 35 percent by volume fragments of siltstone, sandstone, shale and few fragments of coal.; few fine roots
    1C1—15 to 65 centimeters (5.9 to 25.6 inches); 90 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and 10 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior very channery silt loam; massive; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03467. 50 percent by volume of siltstone, sandstone, shale and few fragments of coal.
    1C2—65 to 136 centimeters (25.6 to 53.5 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior very channery loam; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03468. 50 percent by volume of fragments of siltstone, sandstone, shale and few fragments of coal. Split for sampling purposes.
    1C3—136 to 185 centimeters (53.5 to 72.8 inches); 80 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery silt loam; massive; very firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 83P03470. 35 percent by volume fragments of siltstone, sandstone, shale and few fragments of coal.