IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grimsley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984KY013004
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY013004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0603
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54847
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 36.6722221
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5736084
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.1 miles NE of junction Hwy 217 and Hwy 1344; about 9.5 meters SE of Pinevillle, KY.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY013—Bell
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. D. Childress and J. M. Robbins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grimsley
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous Typic Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 12 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments: 32.50 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1984 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—3

    12—80

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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

    9

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    510

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    315

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    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Not sampled.
    A—5 to 8 centimeters (2.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; very stony sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 40 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03367. many fine roots throughout
    AB—8 to 17 centimeters (3.1 to 6.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very stony sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout; 40 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03368. common medium roots throughout
    Bw—17 to 85 centimeters (6.7 to 33.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very stony sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films between sand grains; 40 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03369. Split for sampling; also 3370.; few clay films surface features between sand grains; common medium roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 230252; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 230252
    BC—85 to 95 centimeters (33.5 to 37.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior extremely cobbly sandy loam; single grain; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 70 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; few fine roots throughout