IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Highsplint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86KY-069-009
  • User Pedon ID: 86KY-069-009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 86KY-069-009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KY-069-009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46760
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 38.3767204
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4657135
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Atlas sheet #2-19; about 1 mile NE of Ryan, 0.5 mile E of confluence of Black Stairs Branch and Fox Creek, 70 feet south of Black Stairs Branch. X: 2,224,690 feet, Y: 320,160 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-D4—Stricklett, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Kelley, A.D. Karathanasis, O. Whitaker, S. Jacobs, J. Robbins, K. Bates, and K. Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Highsplint
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Highsplint
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone member of Borden formation, colluvium of acid siltstone, shale and fine grained sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/1986 (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

    FAGUS

    LITU

    OXAR

    Fagus

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Oxydendrum arboreum

    beech

    tuliptree

    sourwood

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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

    46

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 16 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2888
    Bw1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots; 20 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2889
    Bw2—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2890
    Bw3—48 to 104 centimeters (18.9 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2891
    Bw4—104 to 137 centimeters (40.9 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely stony loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2892