IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89KY-057-002
  • User Pedon ID: 89KY-057-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 89KY-057-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 89KY-057-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46789
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 36.7559128
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4135590
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY057—Cumberland
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY057—Cumberland County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36085-G4—Waterview, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Livingston, A.D. Karathanasis, J. Robbins, Jr., L. Norfleet, P. Gregory, and B. Macneal
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, thermic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Holston
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holston
  • Classificaton Date - 5/8/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/8/1989 (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

    fragipan

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    75 - 99

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3070
    Bt1—23 to 49 centimeters (9.1 to 19.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3071
    Bt2—49 to 75 centimeters (19.3 to 29.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3072
    2Btx—75 to 99 centimeters (29.5 to 39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; 15 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) medium prominent and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 1 percent by volume rounded unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3073
    2Bt1—99 to 144 centimeters (39.0 to 56.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; 15 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) fine prominent and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent by volume rounded unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3074
    2Bt2—144 to 185 centimeters (56.7 to 72.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; 15 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY3075