IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alticrest
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94KY-133-001
  • User Pedon ID: 94KY-133-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 94KY-133-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KY-133-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47432
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Letcher County, KY; 400 feet NE of KY 119, 1000 feet W of Presley House Branch on Pine Mountain. X: 2,860,580, y: 281,800.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY133—Letcher
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY626—Knott and Letcher Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37082-A7—Whitesburg, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.S. Aldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alticrest
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alticrest
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum of Lower Pennsylvanian Lee Sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone, unspecified at 64cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/1994 (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

    PIVI2

    QUPR2

    Pinus virginiana

    Quercus prinus

    Virginia pine

    chestnut oak

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    64 - 76

    76 -

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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

    30

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3602
    Bw1—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3603
    Bw2—33 to 64 centimeters (13.0 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) channery sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3604
    Cr—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); bedrock; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3605
    R—76 centimeters (29.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3606