IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Snd
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984KY095008
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY095008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0611
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54855
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 36.9152794
  • Std. Longitude: -82.9444427
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Right fork of Cloverlick CK.; about 5 meters SE of Cumberland, KY.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY095—Harlan
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Yeck, J. M. Robbins and J. D. Childress
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Umbric Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Umbric Dystrochrepts
  • 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
  • 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—31

    31—72

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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

    65

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    740

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    90

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    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Not sampled.
    A—5 to 22 centimeters (2.0 to 8.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03405. many fine roots throughout
    AB—22 to 36 centimeters (8.7 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03406. common fine roots throughout
    Bw—36 to 77 centimeters (14.2 to 30.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03407. few fine roots throughout
    BC—77 to 129 centimeters (30.3 to 50.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very cobbly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P03408. few fine roots throughout