IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 67KY-175-008
  • User Pedon ID: 67KY-175-008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 67KY-175-008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 67KY-175-008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46524
  • 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: 38.0237889
  • Std. Longitude: -83.3705944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 4 miles SE of the North Fork of Licking River on KY Hwy 1378 and 200 yards north. Photo 5-3, east 4 3/8 inches, north 2.5 inches.
  • Map Unit: SlF—Shelocta-Gilpin complex, 20 to 65 percent slopes, stony
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY175—Morgan
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY641—Magoffin and Morgan Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-A3—Wrigley, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.E. Avers and J.S. Austin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy colluvium derived from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Pikeville Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    LITU

    PIVI2

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Pinus virginiana

    tuliptree

    Virginia pine

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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

    26

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    310.9

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1227
    A2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; very friable; 10.0 roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1228
    Bt1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1229. patchy - phpvsfiid 635024; patchy - phpvsfiid 635024
    Bt2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium 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 # KY1230. patchy - phpvsfiid 635025; patchy - phpvsfiid 635025
    Bt3—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1231. patchy - phpvsfiid 635026; patchy - phpvsfiid 635026
    Bt4—91 to 119 centimeters (35.8 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; pale brown (10YR 6/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and light gray (10YR 7/1) mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY1232. patchy - phpvsfiid 635027; patchy - phpvsfiid 635027
    C—119 to 163 centimeters (46.9 to 64.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; 30 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) coarse prominent and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse prominent and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) coarse prominent mottles; weak coarse angular blocky, and structureless massive; firm; 0.5 roots; fragments. Lab sample # KY1233