IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985KY095008
  • User Pedon ID: 85KY095008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0058
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57863
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 36.9319458
  • Std. Longitude: -83.1986084
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1000 feet SW of Shell Gap; about 9.4 mi NE of Harlan, KY.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY095—Harlan
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Berdanier, J. M. Robbins J. D. Childress
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 21 to 71 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 1.45 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

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—21

    21—116

    116—130

    130—140

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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

    47

    —

    —

    792

    —

    180

    —

    —

    —

    11

    —

    —

    11

    1

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    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); partially decomposed organic matter; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00277. Leaves, roots and twigs.
    A—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00276. many fine roots throughout
    BA—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00277. many fine roots throughout
    Bt1—26 to 51 centimeters (10.2 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 medium roots throughout; 15 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00278. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common medium roots throughout
    Bt2—51 to 75 centimeters (20.1 to 29.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00279. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few medium roots throughout
    Bt3—75 to 104 centimeters (29.5 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00280. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few medium roots throughout; common medium distinct 2.5Y64 mottles
    Bt4—104 to 121 centimeters (40.9 to 47.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent greenish gray (5GY 6/1) fine prominent mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; few fine prominent 5GY61 mottles
    Cr—121 to 135 centimeters (47.6 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior weathered bedrock; 1 percent greenish gray (5GY 6/1) fine prominent mottles; massive, and weak coarse platy; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on rock fragments and 37 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 95 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Surfaces of weakness have developed along bedding planes of the siltstone.; common clay films surface features on rock fragments; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on rock fragments; few fine roots throughout; few fine prominent 5GY61 mottles
    R—135 to 145 centimeters (53.1 to 57.1 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Siltstone.