IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Latham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73KY-019-042
  • User Pedon ID: 73KY-019-042
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-019-042
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46596
  • 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: 38.4303694
  • Std. Longitude: -82.7302778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 4 miles SW of Ashland on ridge 2,000 feet west of Arrowhead Lake.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY019—Boyd
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY605—Boyd and Greenup Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38082-D6—Ashland, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • 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 - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Latham
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from acid shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: very weakly coherent sandstone and shale at 86cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Woods
  • 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
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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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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1782
    E—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1783
    Bt1—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1784
    Bt2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1785
    Bt3—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and gray (10YR 6/1) clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.0 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1786
    Cr—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1787
    R—127 to 163 centimeters (50.0 to 64.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1788