IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blairton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86KY-069-012
  • User Pedon ID: 86KY-069-012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 86KY-069-012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KY-069-012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46762
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 38.4003296
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5232162
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Atlas sheet #13; about 0.6 mile south of Fleming-Lewis County line; 0.4 mile east of Hester Ridge Road; 100 feet east of old log house. Bartonville Geo. Quad: X: 2,207,760 feet, Y: 328,720 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: O. Whitaker, J. Robbins, A.D. Karathanasis, S. Jacobs, K. Bates, and K. Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blairton
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blairton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum of the Shale member of Borden Formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, clayey at 69cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2899
    Bt1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2900. continuous - phpvsfiid 639051; continuous - phpvsfiid 639051
    Bt2—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay; 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) fine prominent and 30 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium prominent and 30 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) medium prominent and 30 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2901. continuous - phpvsfiid 639052; continuous - phpvsfiid 639052
    BC—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and pale olive (5Y 6/3) silty clay; 15 percent light greenish gray (5GY 7/1) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky, and weak coarse platy, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2902. continuous - phpvsfiid 639053; continuous - phpvsfiid 639053
    Cr—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2903