IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S11KY149002
  • User Pedon ID: S11KY149002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S11KY149002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N7128
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55357
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.5993385
  • Std. Longitude: -87.3435669
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Cambron pits for water project.
  • Map Unit: WlE—Wellston silt loam, 20 to 30 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY149—McLean
  • MLRA: 120A—Kentucky and Indiana Sandstone and Shale Hills and Valleys, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-OWN—Owensboro, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY631—McLean and Muhlenberg Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37087-E3—Calhoun, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Neyhouse, David Gehring, Phillip Gregory
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • PSC - 19 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2012
  • Classifier - Matt McCauley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 19 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/8/2011
  • Classifier - Matt McCauley
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria fine-silty noncalcareous loess over loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 102cm
  • Geology: Mcleansboro Group 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.; 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: 3/8/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CAGL8

    COFL2

    FRAM2

    LIST2

    LONIC

    QUVE

    QUVE

    SMILA2

    ULAL

    Carya glabra

    Cornus florida

    Fraxinus americana

    Liquidambar styraciflua

    Lonicera

    Quercus velutina

    Quercus velutina

    Smilax

    Ulmus alata

    pignut hickory

    flowering dogwood

    white ash

    sweetgum

    honeysuckle

    black oak

    black oak

    greenbrier

    winged elm

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    102 - 127

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    0—19

    19—102

    81—102

    102—127

    —19—

    —83—

    —21—

    —25—
    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

    13

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    —

    143.6

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    200

    1120

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    196

    14.4

    24.9

    2.9

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    KY6595

    Providence

    coop
    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) slightly decomposed plant material; very friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N05259; observed in pit, small
    A—1 to 3 centimeters (0.4 to 1.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N05260; observed in pit, small
    E—3 to 19 centimeters (1.2 to 7.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 80 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 7.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N05261; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—19 to 34 centimeters (7.5 to 13.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 73 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings with diffuse boundaries between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N05262; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 542360; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 542360
    Bt2—34 to 51 centimeters (13.4 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 73 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings with diffuse boundaries between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N05263; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 542343; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 542343
    Bt3—51 to 62 centimeters (20.1 to 24.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 69 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 75 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings with diffuse boundaries between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N05264; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 542344; patchy - phpvsfiid 542345; continuous - phpvsfiid 542344; patchy - phpvsfiid 542345
    Bt4—62 to 81 centimeters (24.4 to 31.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 20 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 75 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings with diffuse boundaries between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N05265; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 542346; patchy - phpvsfiid 542347; continuous - phpvsfiid 542346; patchy - phpvsfiid 542347
    2Bt5—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam; 22 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings with diffuse boundaries between peds; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-15-33 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N05266; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 542348; patchy - phpvsfiid 542348
    2R—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 11N05267; observed in pit, small