IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Latham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 69KY-165-076
  • User Pedon ID: 69KY-165-076
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 69KY-165-076
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46546
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 37.8566833
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5487667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.5 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
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Latham
  • PSC - 10 to 60 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: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, unspecified at 84cm
  • 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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    84 - 130

    130 -

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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

    20

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1354
    BA—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1355
    Bt1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine faint and 1 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 25 percent clay films; 1 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1356. continuous - phpvsfiid 610859; continuous - phpvsfiid 610859
    Bt2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; 15 percent pale red (2.5YR 6/2) fine distinct and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 25 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films; 1 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1357. continuous - phpvsfiid 610860; continuous - phpvsfiid 610860
    Bt3—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light gray (10YR 7/2) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films; 1 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1358. continuous - phpvsfiid 610861; continuous - phpvsfiid 610861
    Bt4—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light gray (N 7/), and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1359. continuous - phpvsfiid 610862; continuous - phpvsfiid 610862
    B/C—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) silty clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1360. continuous - phpvsfiid 610863; continuous - phpvsfiid 610863
    Cr—84 to 130 centimeters (33.1 to 51.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1361
    R—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.