IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84KY-069-010
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY-069-010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 84KY-069-010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46733
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: About 1 mile north of Ryan, KY; 2440 feet south of Fleming-Lewis County line; 260 feet west of dirt road on Fox Creek. X: 2,222,880 feet, Y: 322,520 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY069—Fleming
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY069—Fleming County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-D4—Stricklett, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Robbins, A.D. Karathanasis, Rudy Forsythe, and S. Jacobs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Classificaton Date - 6/25/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: shale member of the Borden Formation, silty shale and shaley siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, unspecified at 142cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/25/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Mixed hardwoods
  • 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, paralithic

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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
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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 4 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2693
    BA—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 4 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2694
    Bt1—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2695
    Bt2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2696. patchy - phpvsfiid 638090; patchy - phpvsfiid 638090
    BC—76 to 117 centimeters (29.9 to 46.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent by volume 2-?-25 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2697
    C—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches); light greenish gray (5GY 7/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; structureless massive; very firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY2698
    Cr—142 to 152 centimeters (55.9 to 59.8 inches); light greenish gray (5GY 7/1) bedrock; fragments.