IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cutshin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984KY095004
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY095004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0607
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54851
  • 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: 36.9152794
  • Std. Longitude: -82.9208298
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Left fork of Cloverlick CK.; about 6 meters SE of Cumberland, KY.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY095—Harlan
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. D. Childress, S. D. Chapin and J. M. Robbins
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Haplumbrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cutshin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Haplumbrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—31

    31—63

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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

    40

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    1143

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    0

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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Not sampled.
    A1—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03386. many fine roots throughout
    A2—16 to 34 centimeters (6.3 to 13.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03387. common fine roots throughout
    Bw—34 to 66 centimeters (13.4 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior very gravelly silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 28 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03388. few fine roots throughout
    BC—66 to 107 centimeters (26.0 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03389. very few fine roots throughout
    RC—107 to 120 centimeters (42.1 to 47.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. 90 percent siltstone and 10 percent earthy material in cracks.