IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84KY-197-UK2
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY-197-UK2
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 84KY-197-UK2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 84KY-197-UK2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46745
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.8139496
  • Std. Longitude: -83.9532318
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Near Clay City.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY197—Powell
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY634—Powell and Wolfe Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-G8—Clay City, 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 - 32 to 82 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: Colluvium over New Albany black shale residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: indurated shale, acid at 92cm
  • 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

    ACER

    CORNU

    QUERC

    Acer

    Cornus

    Quercus

    maple

    dogwood

    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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    92 -

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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

    36

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2770
    AB—6 to 14 centimeters (2.4 to 5.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2771
    BA—14 to 32 centimeters (5.5 to 12.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2772
    2Btb1—32 to 53 centimeters (12.6 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2773
    2Btb2—53 to 92 centimeters (20.9 to 36.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) channery silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2774
    2R—92 to 107 centimeters (36.2 to 42.1 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) bedrock; moderate coarse platy, and moderate very coarse platy structure; fragments.