IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marrowbone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY195 Marrowbone-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY195 Marrowbone-OSD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 83KY195 Marrowbone-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0649
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52886
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 37.4769444
  • Std. Longitude: -82.3850000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Typical pedon of Marrowbone fine sandy loam in Pike County, KY; in an area of FmF—Fedscreek-Marrowbone-Dekalb complex, 30 to 80 percent slopes, very stony; about 7.3 miles south of the community of Zebulon, KY; 1000 yards east of the confluence of raccoon Creek and Morris Branch in the head of Raccoon Creek on a south facing hill slope; USGS Millard 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle; NAD27. On Soil Survey Atlas Map Sheet #10.
  • Map Unit: FmF—Fedscreek-Marrowbone-Dekalb complex, 30 to 80 percent slopes, very stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY195—Pike
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY195—Pike County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37082-D4—Millard, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Kelley & M. Horvath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marrowbone (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Matewan
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 70cm
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent 0.10 percent flat subrounded indurated 250- to 600-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    PIVI2

    QUPR2

    Pinus virginiana

    Quercus prinus

    Virginia pine

    chestnut oak

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    70 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—57

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    —44—
    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

    44

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    —

    451

    —

    180

    1132

    —

    188

    14.5

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    156353

    PIKEVILLE

    SA COOP
    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout and 4.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-25-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03201; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-25-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03202; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 399067; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 399067
    Bw2—25 to 42 centimeters (9.8 to 16.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.9 fine and medium roots throughout; 3 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-140-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-25-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03203; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—42 to 57 centimeters (16.5 to 22.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 4 percent silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 4 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-140-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 9 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03204; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 399068; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 399068
    BC—57 to 70 centimeters (22.4 to 27.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 11 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 75-140-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 16 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-40-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P03205; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—70 to 95 centimeters (27.6 to 37.4 inches); olive (5Y 5/4) bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small