IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rayne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94KY-237-UK1
  • User Pedon ID: 94KY-237-UK1
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 94KY-237-UK1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KY-237-UK1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47448
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Red River Gorge, off Hwy 715; 500 feet east of Wildcat Trail.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY237—Wolfe
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY634—Powell and Wolfe Counties, 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 - Rayne
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rayne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/11/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Breathitt shale/siltstone/sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale and siltstone at 112cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/11/1994 (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

    CORNU

    QUVE

    Cornus

    Quercus velutina

    dogwood

    black oak

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

    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3700
    AB—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3701
    Bt1—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3702
    Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3703
    Bt3—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3704
    BC—79 to 112 centimeters (31.1 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and brown (10YR 5/3) very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3705
    Cr—112 to 122 centimeters (44.1 to 48.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3706