IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trappist
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY-135-026
  • User Pedon ID: 90KY-135-026
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 90KY-135-026
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 90KY-135-026
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46822
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 38.6292152
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5107193
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lewis County, KY; Atlas sheet 7B; about 6 miles northeast of Tollesboro, about 1,000 feet northeast of intersection of KY-57 and Quick Run Road, about 1,350 feet north of Sulphur Knob lookout tower, and about 100 feet from barn along farm road. X: 2,210,500 feet, Y: 411,800 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY135—Lewis
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY135—Lewis County, Kentucky
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs and D. Dotson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trappist
  • Classificaton Date - 4/12/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from acid, black fissile shale of the Ohio Formation, Devonian Geologic System
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Bedrock: indurated shale, acid at 114cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/12/1990 (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

    PIEC2

    Pinus echinata

    shortleaf pine

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    91 - 114

    114 -

    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

    10

    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3272
    E—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3273
    Bt1—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3274
    Bt2—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.0 coarse roots; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3275
    Bt3—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3276
    BC—66 to 74 centimeters (26.0 to 29.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and red (2.5YR 5/8) channery clay; 15 percent pale red (2.5YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots and 0.0 coarse roots; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3277
    C—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) extremely channery clay; 15 percent 10YR 4/8 (10YR 4/8) medium prominent and 15 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/8) medium distinct and 15 percent light gray (5Y 7/1) medium prominent mottles; strong medium platy structure; very firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent faint clay films on rock fragments; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3278
    Cr—91 to 114 centimeters (35.8 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) extremely channery clay; strong medium platy structure; very firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3279
    R—114 centimeters (44.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3280