IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beasley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85KY-069-010
  • User Pedon ID: 85KY-069-010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 85KY-069-010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 85KY-069-010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46752
  • 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: 38.2267227
  • Std. Longitude: -83.6137772
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Atlas sheet 29; Happy Hollow Road Farm. Geo. Quad. X: 2,182,800 feet, Y: 265,200 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: Very-fine, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beasley
  • PSC - 5 to 55 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: Calcareous shales and dolomitic sandstone; Upper Crab Orchard Formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • 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 - 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

    LOAR10

    QUERC

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Quercus

    tall fescue

    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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    140 -

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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

    5

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    700

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2815
    Bt1—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) silty clay; 30 percent pale olive (5Y 6/3) medium prominent mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2816. continuous - phpvsfiid 639117; continuous - phpvsfiid 639117
    Bt2—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay; 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium prominent and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2817. continuous - phpvsfiid 639118; continuous - phpvsfiid 639118
    Bt3—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay; 30 percent olive (5Y 5/4) medium faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent fine manganese coatings; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2818. continuous - phpvsfiid 639120; continuous - phpvsfiid 639120
    CB—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) channery silty clay loam; 30 percent olive (5Y 5/4) medium faint mottles; moderate platy structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 25 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2819
    Ck1—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); greenish gray (5GY 6/1) silty clay loam; strong coarse platy structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2820
    Ck2—117 to 140 centimeters (46.1 to 55.1 inches); greenish gray (5GY 5/1) silt loam; strong coarse platy, and structureless massive; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 18 percent glauconite pellets in matrix; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2821
    2Cr—140 to 170 centimeters (55.1 to 66.9 inches); loam; fragments. Lab sample # KY2822