IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KY650102
  • User Pedon ID: 07KY650102
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Transect Interval - 100.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0187
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19685
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 36.6695556
  • Std. Longitude: -84.5427500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Big South Fork. South of snackbar at Blue Heron. KY BSF waypoint 372
  • Map Unit: SbF—Shelocta-Bouldin complex, 30 to 75 percent slopes, extremely stony, very rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY147—McCreary
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: TN650—Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Kentucky and Tennessee
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36084-F5—Barthell, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harry Evans, Doug McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Classificaton Date - 11/20/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Paragon/pennington Formation member of the Upper Mississippian group.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subangular 250- to 600-millimeter sandstone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/20/2007 (entry creation 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—142

    —10—

    —130—
    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

    35

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    250

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) exterior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-36-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) exterior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume flat subangular 2-36-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume flat subangular 2-36-76 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 379441; patchy - phpvsfiid 379441
    Bt2—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume flat subangular 2-36-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume flat subangular 2-36-76 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 379442; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 379442
    Bt3—76 to 142 centimeters (29.9 to 55.9 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior silty clay loam; 20 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) distinct and 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume flat subangular 2-36-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume flat subangular 2-36-76 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 379443; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 379443
    C—142 to 183 centimeters (55.9 to 72.0 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior silty clay loam; 40 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3 percent by volume flat subangular 2-36-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume flat subangular 2-36-76 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog.; moist when described; observed in push tube