IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84KY-197-005
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY-197-005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 84KY-197-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 84KY-197-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46743
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: X: 2,564,700 feet, Y: 537,200 feet. About 2.79 miles upstream from the junction of KY Hwys 11 & 15 and Cat Creek Road.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY197—Powell
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY634—Powell and Wolfe Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-G7—Stanton, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hayes and McIntosh
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/13/1984 (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

    QUERC

    Quercus

    oak

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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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2756
    B/E—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2757
    Bt1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2758
    Bt2—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) channery silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KY2759
    Bt3—86 to 142 centimeters (33.9 to 55.9 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and gray (5Y 6/1) silty clay loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; 15 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2760
    C—142 to 183 centimeters (55.9 to 72.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and gray (2.5Y 6/1) silty clay loam; structureless massive; firm; fragments. Lab sample # KY2761