IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cutshin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984KY095005
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY095005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0608
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54852
  • 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: -82.9305573
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Right fork of Cloverlick CK.; about 5.5 meters SE of Cumberland KY.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY095—Harlan
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. D. Chapin, J. D. Childress 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 #: 5
  • 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: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 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—44

    44—60

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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

    50

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    1113

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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.
    A—3 to 27 centimeters (1.2 to 10.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03390. many fine roots throughout
    AB—27 to 47 centimeters (10.6 to 18.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 84P03391. many medium roots throughout
    Bw—47 to 63 centimeters (18.5 to 24.8 inches); 85 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and 15 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03392. Brown soil material in pockets 5 cm or larger old very coarse root channels.; few medium roots throughout
    BC—63 to 111 centimeters (24.8 to 43.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 37 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, skeletans on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03393. common skeletans (sand or silt) surface features on faces of peds; few medium roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217431; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217431
    C—111 to 126 centimeters (43.7 to 49.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P03394. few fine roots throughout