IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelbiana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84KY195 Shelbiana-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY195 Shelbiana-OSD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 84KY195 Shelbiana-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 84KY-195-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46740
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 37.4969444
  • Std. Longitude: -82.5338898
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Typical pedon of Shelbiana loam, in Pike County in an area of Sh—Shelbiana loam, rarely flooded; about 1.0 mile north of Pikeville, KY in a hay field adjacent to Pauley subdivision; on USGS Pikeville, KY Topographic Quadrangle; on Soil Survey Atlas Map Sheet #9.
  • Map Unit: Sh—Shelbiana loam, rarely flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY195—Pike
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY195—Pike County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37082-D5—Pikeville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Kelley & M. Horvath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Palehumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelbiana (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelbiana
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium derived from sandstone and siltstone and/or shale
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding begining in jan
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Alluvium member of the Alluvium formation in the Quaternary group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1984 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    LITU

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    tuliptree

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    214 - 239

    - 25 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—41

    25—127

    —41—

    —102—
    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

    1

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    —

    204.2

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    1132

    —

    188

    14.5

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    —

    —

    —

    —

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    156353

    PIKEVILLE

    SA COOP
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2739; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 fine roots; 25 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2740; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 403487; continuous - phpvsfiid 403487
    Bt1—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 55 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2741; moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 403488; continuous - phpvsfiid 403488
    Bt2—81 to 127 centimeters (31.9 to 50.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2742; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 403489; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 403489
    BC—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2743; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; massive; very friable; 25 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # KY2744; moist when described; observed in pit, small