IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bethesda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 78KY183001
  • User Pedon ID: 2016KY183001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 78KY-183-053
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46664
  • 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: 37.4259722
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7881944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 5 miles east of Beaver Dam, 1 mile south of U.S. Highway 62 and Horton, on soil map sheet 39, east-west 1,690,500 feet and north-south 389,500 feet by Kentucky grid coordinates.
  • Map Unit: BfF—Bethesda, Fairpoint, and Morristown soils, 20 to 70 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY183—Ohio
  • 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: KY183—Ohio County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37086-D7—Horton, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Glenn E. Kelley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/11/2016
  • Classifier - Steve Neyhouse
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bethesda
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy-skeletal coal extraction mine spoil derived from interbedded sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Anthropogenic Feature: reclaimed land
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Tradewater And Caseyville Formations formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    0—15

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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

    31

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    152.4

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    1240

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    188

    14.1

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    KY0490

    Beaver Dam

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) very channery loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 55 percent by volume , 70 percent by weight flat subangular moderately coherent cemented 2-37-76 millimeter shale, acid fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2250; moist when described;
    C1—15 to 53 centimeters (5.9 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) very gravelly loam; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; 50 percent by volume , 65 percent by weight nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-37-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2251; moist when described;
    C2—53 to 102 centimeters (20.9 to 40.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) very channery loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; firm; 55 percent by volume , 70 percent by weight flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-50-100 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2252; moist when described;
    C3—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) very channery silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; 20 percent by volume , 30 percent by weight flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-125-250 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume , 41 percent by weight flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-125-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0. Lab sample # KY2253; moist when described;