IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wellston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73KY-089-036
  • User Pedon ID: 73KY-089-036
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 73KY-089-036
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 73KY-089-036
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46609
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 16 miles west of Greenup; 1,000 feet NE of county road on Zion Ridge; between Whiteoak Creek and Mill Hollow; and 1.2 miles east of 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

  • Describers Name: Carl Hail
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wellston
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent shale, unspecified at 112cm
  • 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
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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, lithic

    indurated

    112 - 137

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—30

    30—99

    112—137

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    —69—

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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

    8

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate fine granular structure; very friable; many (10.0) fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1875
    BA—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common (1.0) fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1876
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent distinct clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1877
    Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) fine faint irregular and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint irregular mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 10 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3) silt coats and 30 percent distinct clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1878
    Bt3—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) medium faint irregular mottles; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent distinct clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1879
    Bt4—86 to 99 centimeters (33.9 to 39.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) medium distinct irregular and 30 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct irregular mottles; weak medium angular blocky parts to weak very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1880
    C—99 to 112 centimeters (39.0 to 44.1 inches); 34 percent gray (10YR 6/1) and 33 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) and 33 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) clay; structureless massive; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY1881
    R—112 to 130 centimeters (44.1 to 51.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY1882