IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westmoreland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00KY-001-001
  • User Pedon ID: 00KY-001-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 00KY-001-001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46334
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Adair County, KY; about 9 miles west of Columbia, KY; 1320 feet west of Portland and 150 feet north of Hwy 1702; in a hayfield on the Huston Finn farm.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY001—Adair
  • MLRA: 122—Highland Rim and Pennyroyal
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-COO—Cookeville, Tennessee
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY001—Adair County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Jenkins, Harry Evans, and Terry Shell Brown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmoreland
  • PSC - 8 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmoreland
  • Classificaton Date - 11/28/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Bedrock: weakly coherent siltstone, unspecified at 38cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/28/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    38 - 61

    61 -

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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

    4

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0001
    Bt1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 5 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0002
    Bt2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout; 10 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0003
    Cr—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) bedrock; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # KY0004
    R—61 centimeters (24.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY0005