IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westbend
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87KY197 Westbend-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 87KY197 Westbend-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 87KY-197-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46781
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.8302956
  • Std. Longitude: -83.8879852
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 1.7 miles west of Stanton and 150 feet south of the Mountain Parkway.
  • Map Unit: WbE2—Westbend silt loam, 20 to 45 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY197—Powell
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY634—Powell and Wolfe Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-G8—Clay City, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Raymond Hayes and Doug McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Westbend (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westbend
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, unspecified at 114cm
  • Geology: Nancy Member member of the Borden Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    114 - 140

    - 26 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—5

    18—84

    114—

    —5—

    —66—

    —-
    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

    35

    —

    —

    256

    —

    225

    1233

    —

    173

    12.9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    KY3741

    Heidelberg

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3026; moist when described;
    BA—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 1 percent by volume angular unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3027; moist when described;
    Bt1—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 35 percent distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 2 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3028; moist when described;
    Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 15 percent prominent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, silt coats on surfaces along root channels and 35 percent distinct light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3029; moist when described;
    Bt3—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and olive gray (5Y 5/2) channery silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 35 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3030; moist when described;
    BC—84 to 94 centimeters (33.1 to 37.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) channery silty clay loam; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 20 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3031; moist when described;
    C—94 to 114 centimeters (37.0 to 44.9 inches); variegated light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and olive (5Y 5/3) very channery silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 20 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments and 20 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3032; moist when described;
    Cr—114 to 140 centimeters (44.9 to 55.1 inches); bedrock; light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, silt coats on bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3033; moist when described;