IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Upshur
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93KY-127-001
  • User Pedon ID: 93KY-127-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 93KY-127-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47403
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: In Lawrence County, KY; 7 miles north of Louisa on US Highway 23; along a gravel road on the west side of US 23 which runs along side of a hollow fill, to the ridgetop.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY127—Lawrence
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY640—Lawrence and Martin Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Rhodudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Upshur
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from clay shale and inter-bedded siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent siltstone, unspecified at 130cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1993 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    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
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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3442
    Bt1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3443
    Bt2—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3444
    Bt3—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) silty clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 30 percent medium prominent olive (5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine cylindrical carbonate nodules at top of horizon; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3445
    BC—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) very channery silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 30 percent medium prominent olive (5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent fine cylindrical carbonate nodules at top of horizon; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3446
    C—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); dusky red (10R 3/3) extremely channery silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; 0.0 fine roots; 30 percent medium prominent olive (5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3447
    Cr—130 to 132 centimeters (51.2 to 52.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3448