IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wernock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93KY-147-UK1
  • User Pedon ID: 93KY-147-UK1
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 93KY-147-UK1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 93KY-147-UK1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47404
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Plot A. Daniel Boone National Forest; Bowmand Ridge; Forest Road 51. Two miles on 51 then 100 yards south off road.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY147—McCreary
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY630—McCreary-Whitley Area, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A.D. Karathanasis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wernock
  • PSC - 28 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wernock
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from acid siltstones, shales, and sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone and shale at 86cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/1993 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    PIVI2

    QUVE

    SAAL5

    SMILA2

    Acer rubrum

    Pinus virginiana

    Quercus velutina

    Sassafras albidum

    Smilax

    red maple

    Virginia pine

    black oak

    sassafras

    greenbrier

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

    bedrock, paralithic

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    86 -

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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

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak granular structure; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3449
    BA—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3450
    Bt1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3451
    Bt2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3452
    C—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) loam; structureless massive; 0.5 medium roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3453
    Cr—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3454