IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tilsit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10KY628FSC005
  • User Pedon ID: 10KY125FSC005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 10KY628FSC005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 10KY-125-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46431
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 37.0583076
  • Std. Longitude: -84.1824417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Laurel County, Kentucky; Daniel Boone National Forest; Cold Hill Area; about 6.0 miles east of London, KY on KY Hwy 192; 0.9 miles north on West Line Creek Road; 30 feet east of West Line Creek Road.
  • Map Unit: TlB—Tilsit silt loam, 2 to 6 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: 37084-B1—London, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Doug McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tilsit
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • PSC - 18 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/2010
  • 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: interfluve
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone and siltstone at 142cm
  • Geology: Breathitt 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: 6/28/2010 (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 - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    LITU

    QUERC

    Acer rubrum

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus

    red maple

    tuliptree

    oak

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

    fragipan

    noncoherent

    64 - 120

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    3—21

    21—145

    64—120

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0468; 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); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0469; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—18 to 51 centimeters (7.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; on surfaces along root channels and 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY0470; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 550635; patchy - phpvsfiid 550635
    Bt2—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0471; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550636; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550636
    Btx1—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; fine roots in cracks; 2 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2) silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds and 30 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, iron depletions with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0472; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 550638; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550637; continuous - phpvsfiid 550638; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550637
    Btx2—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; fine roots in cracks; 2 percent distinct light gray (2.5Y 7/2) silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds and 30 percent medium distinct irregular very weakly coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0473; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550639; continuous - phpvsfiid 550640; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550639; continuous - phpvsfiid 550640
    2Btx3—102 to 117 centimeters (40.2 to 46.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) silt loam; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; brittle; in cracks; 2 percent distinct light gray (7.5YR 7/1) silt coats on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented light red (7.5R 6/6) iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds and 20 percent medium distinct irregular very weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2) iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0474; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550641; continuous - phpvsfiid 550642; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 550641; continuous - phpvsfiid 550642
    2Bt3—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 20 percent 2.5Y 4/8 (2.5Y 4/8) medium distinct irregular mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; semideformable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY0475; observed in pit, small
    Cr—142 to 160 centimeters (55.9 to 63.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small