IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rigley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 81KY-109-004
  • User Pedon ID: 81KY-109-004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 81KY-109-004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 81KY-109-004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46700
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: X: 2,474,200 feet, Y: 378,000 feet. About 3.2 miles SW of S Tree Lookout Tower, to a point where the ridge top road breaks down and under the rock outcrop.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY109—Jackson
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY623—Jackson and Owsley Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37084-C1—Parrot, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Carl Hail et al.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rigley
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rigley
  • Classificaton Date - 6/2/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone and shale and/or colluvium derived from siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/2/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    ACRU

    CORNU

    KALA

    OXAR

    PIEC2

    QUCO2

    QUPR2

    SAAL5

    SMILA2

    Acer rubrum

    Cornus

    Kalmia latifolia

    Oxydendrum arboreum

    Pinus echinata

    Quercus coccinea

    Quercus prinus

    Sassafras albidum

    Smilax

    red maple

    dogwood

    mountain laurel

    sourwood

    shortleaf pine

    scarlet oak

    chestnut oak

    sassafras

    greenbrier

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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

    65

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    270

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; 5 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2499
    E/B—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2500
    Bt1—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films; 25 percent by volume angular 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2501. continuous - phpvsfiid 635646; continuous - phpvsfiid 635646
    Bt2—71 to 119 centimeters (28.0 to 46.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine pores; 50 percent clay films; 35 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2502, KY2503
    Bt3—119 to 157 centimeters (46.9 to 61.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1.0 medium and 1.0 fine pores; 30 percent clay films; 35 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2504. continuous - phpvsfiid 635648; continuous - phpvsfiid 635648
    C—157 to 183 centimeters (61.8 to 72.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) very channery loam; structureless massive; firm; 40 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KY2505