IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wharton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86KY-069-006
  • User Pedon ID: 86KY-069-006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 86KY-069-006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KY-069-006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46758
  • 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: 38.4100533
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5082169
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: KY atlas sheet #13; about 2.5 miles NE of Watershed structure on Anderson Branch; 700 feet south of Lewis County line; about 450 feet north of East Prong of Anderson Branch; X: 2,212,080 feet, Y: 332,200 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY069—Fleming
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY069—Fleming County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-D5—Burtonville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: O. Whitaker, S. Jacobs, J. Robbins, K. Bates, & K. Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wharton
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wharton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Shale, siltstone, and fine-grained sandstone colluvium or residuum over shale member of Borden formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    ACRU

    CARYA

    QUAL

    QUPR2

    QUVE

    Acer rubrum

    Carya

    Quercus alba

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus velutina

    red maple

    hybrid hickory

    white oak

    chestnut oak

    black oak

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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

    22

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2875
    Bt1—13 to 35 centimeters (5.1 to 13.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 10 percent clay films; 8 percent by volume ironstone nodules fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2876
    Bt2—35 to 47 centimeters (13.8 to 18.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine prominent and 15 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) medium prominent and 15 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) fine prominent and 15 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) medium prominent and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2877. continuous - phpvsfiid 639098; continuous - phpvsfiid 639098
    BC—47 to 86 centimeters (18.5 to 33.9 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and pale olive (5Y 6/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong coarse subangular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2878. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639099; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639099
    CB1—86 to 101 centimeters (33.9 to 39.8 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2879
    CB2—101 to 117 centimeters (39.8 to 46.1 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) and light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and pale olive (5Y 6/4) silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky, and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # KY2880