IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86KY-069-007
  • User Pedon ID: 86KY-069-007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 86KY-069-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KY-069-007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46759
  • 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: 38.4061623
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5079422
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Kentucky Atlas Sheet #13; about 2.8 miles north of confluence of Sugar Tree Branch and Fox Creek, about 1,700 feet NW of barn, 400 feet NE of head of Sugar Tree Branch. X: 2,212,120 feet, Y: 330,450 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: G. Kelley, A.D. Karathanasis, O. Whitaker, S. Jacobs, J. Robbins, K. Bates, & K. Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Colluvium of fine grained sandstone, siltstone, and shale on the shale member of the Borden formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/1986 (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

    ACSA3

    LITU

    QUAL

    Acer saccharum

    Liriodendron tulipifera

    Quercus alba

    sugar maple

    tuliptree

    white 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    10

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3); weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2881
    Bt1—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 coarse roots; 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) organic stains on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2882. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639090; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639090
    Bt2—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 30 percent clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2883. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639091; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639091
    Bt3—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4); moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2884. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639092; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639092
    Bt4—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4); moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2885. continuous - phpvsfiid 639093; continuous - phpvsfiid 639093
    BC—91 to 108 centimeters (35.8 to 42.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3); 1 percent yellow (2.5Y 7/6) medium distinct and 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2886
    CB—108 to 136 centimeters (42.5 to 53.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6); 15 percent gray (10YR 6/1) coarse faint and 30 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and structureless massive; fragments. Lab sample # KY2887