IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alticrest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985KY095007
  • User Pedon ID: 85KY095007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0057
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57862
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 36.9661102
  • Std. Longitude: -83.0999985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1200 feet N of Sand Quarry; about 5.5 mi W of Cumberland, KY.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY095—Harlan
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Berdanier, J. M. Robbins, J. D. Childress etal
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alticrest
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, siliceous Typic Dystrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (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

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—7

    7—84

    84—89

    89—89

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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

    25

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    —

    829

    —

    225

    —

    —

    —

    11

    —

    —

    11

    —

    —

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    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Leaves, twigs and roots.
    A—5 to 11 centimeters (2.0 to 4.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. many fine roots throughout
    Bw1—11 to 35 centimeters (4.3 to 13.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00273. common fine roots throughout
    Bw2—35 to 60 centimeters (13.8 to 23.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00274. few fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout
    BC—60 to 89 centimeters (23.6 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00275. few fine roots throughout
    Cr—89 to 94 centimeters (35.0 to 37.0 inches); unknown texture; massive; very firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.
    R—94 to 104 centimeters (37.0 to 40.9 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Sandstone.