IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84KY-069-UK5
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY-069-UK5
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 84KY-069-UK5
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 84KY-069-UK5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46739
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 38.4197845
  • Std. Longitude: -83.6116791
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Near Wallingford.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY069—Fleming
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • 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, illitic, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Ohio black shale residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent shale, acid at 90cm
  • 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
  • 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
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    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

    62

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 1 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2734
    Bt1—5 to 50 centimeters (2.0 to 19.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 13 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2735
    Bt2—50 to 66 centimeters (19.7 to 26.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/8) clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 10 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2736
    C—66 to 90 centimeters (26.0 to 35.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium faint and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) coarse faint mottles; moderate medium platy, and moderate coarse platy structure; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2737
    R—90 centimeters (35.4 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) bedrock; moderate very coarse platy structure; fragments. Lab sample # KY2738