IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dekalb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY-195-015
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY-195-015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 83KY-195-015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46728
  • Print Date: 5/2/2024

    • 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: 37.5036774
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2331772
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Dicks Knob Area.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY195—Pike
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY195—Pike County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.A. Kelley and M. Horath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • PSC - 25 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dekalb
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum from sandstone-noncalcareous material over local colluvium from sandstone-noncalcareous material
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 70cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/6/1983 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
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    bedrock, lithic

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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

    70

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) channery sandy loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2660
    BA—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) channery sandy loam; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2661
    Bw1—18 to 53 centimeters (7.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) very channery sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2662
    Bw2—53 to 70 centimeters (20.9 to 27.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely flaggy sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2663
    R—70 to 80 centimeters (27.6 to 31.5 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2664