IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Latham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73KY-089-035
  • User Pedon ID: 73KY-089-035
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 73KY-089-035
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-089-035
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46608
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 15 miles west of Greenup; 1000 feet SW of country road on Zion Ridge; between Whiteoak Creek and Mill Hollow; and 0.12 miles east of the Lewis County line.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY089—Greenup
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Latham
  • PSC - 15 to 65 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: clayey residuum weathered from acid shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, unspecified at 94cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

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    94 - 112

    112 -

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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

    6

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1867
    BA—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1868
    Bt1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1869
    Bt2—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 30 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) medium distinct and 30 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium distinct mottles; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 10 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1870
    Bt3—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; weak medium angular blocky, and weak fine angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 50 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1871
    C—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) clay; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 30 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) medium distinct mottles; weak platy structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1872
    Cr—94 to 112 centimeters (37.0 to 44.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1873
    R—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1874