IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rarden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KY043004
  • User Pedon ID: S07KY043004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 07KY043004
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0554
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18911
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 38.3953889
  • Std. Longitude: -83.1546111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mile north of Wesleyville on KY Rt. 2 to the intersection of KY Rt. 2 and KY Rt. 182 1 mile east on KY Rt. 182 to the Oakland Church, .5 miles west on Oakland Church Road to a farm road, west 500 feet to a nose slope located in a pasture.
  • Map Unit: SNF—Steinsburg-Latham association, steep
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY043—Carter
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY043—Carter County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-D2—Wesleyville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alan Moore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Aquultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rarden
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Aquultic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered shale, unspecified at 84cm with =>200
  • Geology: Breathitt formation of the Pennsylvania group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAGL

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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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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    84 - 110

    110 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—5

    5—84

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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

    6

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    323

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-25-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—5 to 43 centimeters (2.0 to 16.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 5-25-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in auger, bucket. continuous - phpvsfiid 834805; continuous - phpvsfiid 834805
    Bt2—43 to 84 centimeters (16.9 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately slow permeability; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 5-25-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in auger, bucket. continuous - phpvsfiid 834806; continuous - phpvsfiid 834806
    Cr—84 to 110 centimeters (33.1 to 43.3 inches); bedrock; high excavation difficulty; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in auger, bucket
    2R—110 centimeters (43.3 inches); bedrock; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; dry when described; observed in auger, bucket