IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Latham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 69KY-165-075
  • User Pedon ID: 69KY-165-075
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 69KY-165-075
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46545
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 37.8579611
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5518500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mile west of KY Hwy 746; 1.6 miles south of Pomeroyton
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-G5—Pomeroyton, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.H. Newton, P.M. Love, R.L. Blevins, and R.E. Daniell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Latham
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Latham
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from acid shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, unspecified at 107cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Mixed hardwoods and pine
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    107 - 125

    125 -

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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

    5

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1347
    BA—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1348
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films; 2 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1349. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610855; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610855
    Bt2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine faint and 15 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 25 percent clay films; 2 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1350. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610856; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610856
    Bt3—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 25 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1351. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610857; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610857
    Bt4—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 25 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1352. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610858; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 610858
    Cr—107 to 124 centimeters (42.1 to 48.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1353
    R—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.