IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Jefferson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71KY-025-007
  • User Pedon ID: 71KY-025-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 71KY-025-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46567
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Robinson Forest; lower 1/3 of slope 150 yards up Millseat Creek from its confluence with Clemmons Branch.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY025—Breathitt
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY025—Breathitt County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Jefferson
  • PSC - 69 to 112 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jefferson
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium over clayey residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: very weakly coherent sandstone and siltstone at 112cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    112 - 150

    150 -

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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
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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) gravelly loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1547
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) gravelly loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; very friable; 10.0 roots; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1548
    Bt—20 to 61 centimeters (7.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; 30 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1549, KY1550
    2BC—61 to 69 centimeters (24.0 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) very channery silt loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 75 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1551
    3Bt—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; 30 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1552
    3BC—89 to 112 centimeters (35.0 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; platy structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1553
    4Cr1—112 to 124 centimeters (44.1 to 48.8 inches); black (N 2/), bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1554
    5Cr2—124 to 150 centimeters (48.8 to 59.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 1 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 75 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1555
    5R—150 to 165 centimeters (59.1 to 65.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1556