IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muskingum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71KY-025-009
  • User Pedon ID: 71KY-025-009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 71KY-025-009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46569
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Robinson Forest; 1.25 miles NE of Robinson Forest headquarters; at the head of Tom's Branch, a small watershed off Clemmon's Fork; Northern Exposure, 75 yards west of site 71KY-013-008.
  • 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, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Silty colluvium over clayey residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • 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
    • 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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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1565
    BA—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1566
    Bt1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1567
    Bt2—46 to 89 centimeters (18.1 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1568. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 634907; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 634907
    Bt3—89 to 130 centimeters (35.0 to 51.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments. Lab sample # KY1569