IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marrowbone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY-195-016
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY-195-016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 83KY-195-016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46729
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.4947853
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2323456
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Dicks Knob Area.
  • 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marrowbone
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marrowbone
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from siltstone-noncalcareous material over local colluvium from sandstone-noncalcareous material
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent siltstone, unspecified at 75cm
  • 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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    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

    60

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; very friable; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2665
    Bw1—9 to 31 centimeters (3.5 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2666
    Bw2—31 to 60 centimeters (12.2 to 23.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, calcareous fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2667
    Bw3—60 to 75 centimeters (23.6 to 29.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2668
    R—75 to 85 centimeters (29.5 to 33.5 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2669