IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kimper
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY-195-011
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY-195-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 83KY-195-011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46726
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.4297867
  • Std. Longitude: -82.1812363
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Henroost Fl. Feds Creek.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY195—Pike
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY195—Pike County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.A. Kelley, W.C. Lynn, and M Horvath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimper
  • PSC - 67 to 106 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kimper
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Local colluvium from noncalcareous sandstone material
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 158cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Forest
  • 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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    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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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) channery loam; very friable; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2646
    BA—14 to 24 centimeters (5.5 to 9.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; very friable; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2647
    Bw1—24 to 39 centimeters (9.4 to 15.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2648
    Bw2—39 to 67 centimeters (15.4 to 26.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2649
    Bt—67 to 106 centimeters (26.4 to 41.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films; 25 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2650
    BC—106 to 136 centimeters (41.7 to 53.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2651
    C—136 to 158 centimeters (53.5 to 62.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) extremely flaggy loam; firm; 50 percent by volume 75-?-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume 20-?-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2652
    R—158 to 168 centimeters (62.2 to 66.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2653