IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muse
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84KY-197-UK1
  • User Pedon ID: 84KY-197-UK1
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 84KY-197-UK1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 84KY-197-UK1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46744
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 37.8142281
  • Std. Longitude: -83.9529572
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Near Clay City.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY197—Powell
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY634—Powell and Wolfe Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37083-G8—Clay City, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A.D. Karathanasis and Terry Sobecki
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, illitic, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muse
  • PSC - 12 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muse
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Borden gray shale residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale, acid at 124cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1984 (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

    ACER

    CORNU

    QUERC

    Acer

    Cornus

    Quercus

    maple

    dogwood

    oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    124 -

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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

    20

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine angular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2762
    AB—6 to 12 centimeters (2.4 to 4.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2763
    Bt1—12 to 27 centimeters (4.7 to 10.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; strong medium angular blocky parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2764
    Bt2—27 to 45 centimeters (10.6 to 17.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2765
    2Bt3—45 to 65 centimeters (17.7 to 25.6 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay; 15 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2766
    2BCt1—65 to 100 centimeters (25.6 to 39.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2767
    2BCt2—100 to 124 centimeters (39.4 to 48.8 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2768
    3Cr—124 to 144 centimeters (48.8 to 56.7 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2769