IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beasley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85KY-069-007
  • User Pedon ID: 85KY-069-007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 85KY-069-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 85KY-069-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46749
  • 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: 38.3706093
  • Std. Longitude: -83.6015549
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Atlas Sheet # 17 near Goddard Plummers Landing. X: 2,185,620 feet, Y: 317,640 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs, G. Kelley, and A.D. Karathanasis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beasley
  • PSC - 5 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Beasley
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1985
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Dolomite and clay shale, lower part of Crab Orchard Formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 119cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    LOAR10

    Lolium arundinaceum

    tall fescue

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    119 -

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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

    4

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    760

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2792
    Bt1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2793. continuous - phpvsfiid 639100; continuous - phpvsfiid 639101; patchy - phpvsfiid 639102; continuous - phpvsfiid 639100; continuous - phpvsfiid 639101; patchy - phpvsfiid 639102
    Bt2—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) clay; 30 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine distinct and 30 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; weak fine prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent pressure faces and 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2794. continuous - phpvsfiid 639103; continuous - phpvsfiid 639103
    BC—40 to 51 centimeters (15.7 to 20.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent pressure faces; 25 percent glauconite pellets; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2795. patchy - phpvsfiid 639105; patchy - phpvsfiid 639105
    CB—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); weak red (10R 4/3) silty clay; 15 percent dusky red (10R 3/2) medium faint and 15 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse platy, and weak very coarse platy, and structureless massive; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent pressure faces; 25 percent glauconite pellets; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2796
    C1—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); dark reddish gray (10R 4/1) silty clay; 15 percent weak red (10R 4/2) coarse faint and 15 percent light greenish gray (5GY 7/1) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse platy, and moderate very coarse platy structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2797
    C2—94 to 102 centimeters (37.0 to 40.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; 15 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) fine faint and 15 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) medium faint mottles; moderate medium platy structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2798
    C3—102 to 119 centimeters (40.2 to 46.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) silty clay; strong coarse platy structure; 0.0 fine roots; 8 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2799
    R—119 centimeters (46.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2800