IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rigley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95KY-119-003
  • User Pedon ID: 95KY-119-003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 95KY-119-003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 95KY-119-003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47456
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 37.3667336
  • Std. Longitude: -83.0432053
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Knott County, Ky; 1000 feet north of KY Hwy 80; 3 miles west of Hindman, KY.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY119—Knott
  • 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: 37083-C1—Carrie, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.S. Aldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rigley
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rigley
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Colluvium of Mississippian siltstone of the Granger formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 157cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1995 (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

    ACSA3

    CAOV2

    LITU

    Acer saccharum

    Carya ovata

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    sugar maple

    shagbark hickory

    tuliptree

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

    bedrock, lithic

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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

    55

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # KY3756
    A—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3757
    BA—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3758
    Bw1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3759
    Bw2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3760
    Bw3—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3761
    Bw4—81 to 132 centimeters (31.9 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; ; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3762
    CB—132 to 157 centimeters (52.0 to 61.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) extremely stony sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3763
    R—157 to 167 centimeters (61.8 to 65.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3764