IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beasley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85KY-069-011
  • User Pedon ID: 85KY-069-011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 85KY-069-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 85KY-069-011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46753
  • 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: 38.2311668
  • Std. Longitude: -83.6107178
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Atlas sheet #29; Happy Hollow Road Farm Geo Quad. X: 2,183,540 feet, Y: 266,720 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 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 olive (green) shales; Upper Crab Orchard Formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, clayey at 112cm
  • 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, paralithic

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    112 -

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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

    7

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    690

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2823
    Bt1—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct and 30 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine distinct and 30 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume chert fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2824. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639122; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639122
    Bt2—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay; 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2825. continuous - phpvsfiid 639123; continuous - phpvsfiid 639123
    Bt3—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay; 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2826. continuous - phpvsfiid 639125; continuous - phpvsfiid 639125
    CB—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; 15 percent olive (5Y 5/4) medium faint mottles; moderate medium platy parts to weak coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 14 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2827
    C—79 to 112 centimeters (31.1 to 44.1 inches); olive (5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; strong coarse platy structure; very firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2828
    Cr—112 to 160 centimeters (44.1 to 63.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2829