IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Latham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84KY-069-UK1
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY-069-UK1
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 84KY-069-UK1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 84KY-069-UK1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46735
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 38.4215660
  • Std. Longitude: -83.6125870
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: near Wallingford.
  • Map Unit: CoF2—Colyer-Trappist complex, 12 to 55 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY069—Fleming
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY069—Fleming County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-D5—Burtonville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A.D. Karathanasis and Terry Sobecki
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Latham
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Latham
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess over Borden Formation clayey residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent shale, acid at 90cm
  • Geology: Farmers Member member of the Borden Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1984 (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

    CARYA

    QUERC

    Carya

    Quercus

    hybrid hickory

    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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    90 -

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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

    3

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    359.7

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2704
    E—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2705
    Bt—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 15 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2706
    2BCt—43 to 90 centimeters (16.9 to 35.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) very channery silty clay; 15 percent pinkish gray (5YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate medium platy structure; firm; 60 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2707
    2R—90 to 100 centimeters (35.4 to 39.4 inches); bedrock; structureless massive; fragments. Lab sample # KY2708