IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 67KY-165-007
  • User Pedon ID: 67KY-165-007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 67KY-165-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 67KY-165-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46522
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 2 miles NE of the junction of Forest Routes 9A and 9B, up the East Fork of Indian Creek; about 0.4 mile past oil well on Forest Route 9D, then 165 yards west. Photo 4-6, east 5 7/8 ins., north 9 1/8 ins.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY165—Menifee
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY645—Menifee and Rowan Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.E. Avers and J.S. Austin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Pennsylvanian Age shale colluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUERC

    Quercus

    oak

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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

    45

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1211
    A2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1212
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1213. patchy - phpvsfiid 635016; patchy - phpvsfiid 635016
    Bt2—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1214. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635017; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 635017
    Bt3—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1215. patchy - phpvsfiid 635018; patchy - phpvsfiid 635018
    Bt4—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1216. patchy - phpvsfiid 635019; patchy - phpvsfiid 635019
    2BC—104 to 119 centimeters (40.9 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1217
    2C1—119 to 124 centimeters (46.9 to 48.8 inches); 2.5Y 2/ (2.5Y 2/), silt loam; structureless massive; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1218
    2C2—124 to 178 centimeters (48.8 to 70.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light gray (10YR 7/1) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and structureless massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # KY1219