IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muskingum
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 83KY195 Muskingum-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY195 Muskingum-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0648
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52885
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 37.4947222
  • Std. Longitude: -82.2322222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Typical pedon of Muskingum channery silt loam in Pike County, in an area of MaF—Marrowbone-Dekalb-Muskingum channery silt loam 30 to 80 percent slopes, very rocky; about 7.2 miles east of McVeigh, on Dicks Knob at the head of Johns Creek, 125 yards west of Dicks Knob road; USGS Jamboree, KY 7.5 minute Topographic Quadrangle; on Soil Survey Atlas Map Sheet #12.
  • Map Unit: MaF—Marrowbone-Clifftop-Matewan complex, 35 to 75 percent slopes, very rocky
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY195—Pike
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY195—Pike County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37082-D2—Jamboree, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Kelley & M. Horvath
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muskingum (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Matewan
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 75cm
  • Geology: Four Corners Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    75 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—9

    9—75

    75—100

    —9—

    —66—

    —25—
    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

    60

    —

    —

    610

    —

    225

    1132

    —

    188

    14.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    156353

    PIKEVILLE

    SA COOP
    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) channery silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 20 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-40-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03196
    Bw1—9 to 31 centimeters (3.5 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 15 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-40-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03197
    Bw2—31 to 60 centimeters (12.2 to 23.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout and coarse roots throughout; 25 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-40-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03198
    C—60 to 75 centimeters (23.6 to 29.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery loam; massive; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 35 percent by volume flat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-40-150 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03199
    R—75 to 100 centimeters (29.5 to 39.4 inches); olive (5Y 5/4) bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 83P03200