IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 69KY-131-002
  • User Pedon ID: 69KY-131-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 69KY-131-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 69KY-131-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46544
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 0.6 mile north of Dry Hill, KY. Post Office on KY Hwy 257; hence across bridge and 1.9 miles north on Trace Branch boat ramp road on right side of road.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY131—Leslie
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY633—Leslie and Perry Counties, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T.W. Leathers and E.V. Huffman
  • 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 - 11/6/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone and shale and/or colluvium derived from siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent shale, clayey at 109cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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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 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 roots; 3 percent by volume 15-?-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 15-?-25 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1341
    E—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 roots; 5 percent by volume 12-?-50 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 12-?-50 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1342
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silt loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 roots; 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume 2-?-25 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume 2-?-25 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1343. patchy - phpvsfiid 635037; patchy - phpvsfiid 635037
    Bt2—33 to 91 centimeters (13.0 to 35.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly silty clay loam; 1 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1344. continuous - phpvsfiid 635038; continuous - phpvsfiid 635038
    C—91 to 109 centimeters (35.8 to 42.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very gravelly silt loam; structureless massive; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1345
    R—109 to 140 centimeters (42.9 to 55.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1346