IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Weikert
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10KY628FSC004
  • User Pedon ID: 10KY125FSC004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 10KY628FSC004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 10KY-125-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46430
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 36.9809990
  • Std. Longitude: -84.2699738
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Laurel County, Kentucky; Daniel Boone National Forest; Holly Bay Area; "Holly Thicket"; about 150 yards north northeast of Wintergreen Trail and 100 yards west of Reserved Camp Sites (H).
  • Map Unit: SbD—Shelocta gravelly silt loam, 12 to 20 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY125—Laurel
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 18obsolete—Lexington, KY
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY628—Laurel and Rockcastle Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36084-H3—Sawyer, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harry Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Weikert
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 25 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/28/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 48cm
  • Geology: Lee Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) and NASIS Group Name (6-LON London, KY POINT) was transferred to (MLRA12_Amherst) and (NE-LON London, KY POINT) respectively 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: 5/28/2010 (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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 26
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    ILOP

    LITU

    QUAL

    Acer rubrum

    Ilex opaca

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus alba

    red maple

    American holly

    tuliptree

    white oak

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    51 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    3—21

    21—51

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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

    25

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-?-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0465; observed in pit, small
    Oi—3 to 0 centimeters (1.2 to 0.0 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BA—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-?-379 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0466; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 coarse roots around fragments; 10 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 150-?-599 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0467; observed in pit, small
    R—48 to 58 centimeters (18.9 to 22.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.