IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Covedale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY135 Covedale-OSD
  • User Pedon ID: 90KY135 Covedale-OSD
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 90KY135 Covedale-OSD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KY-135-039
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46809
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 38.4292068
  • Std. Longitude: -83.5699234
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: located about 1.1 miles southeast of Carpenter Corners in Fleming County, about 0.5 miles northwest of Bowman Springs; 400 feet north of the North Fork of the Licking River which forms the Fleming-Lewis County line, and about 40 feet south of gravel road.
  • Map Unit: CoC2—Covedale silt loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY135—Lewis
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY135—Lewis County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-D5—Burtonville, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Jacobs and Richard Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Covedale (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muse
  • Classificaton Date - 2/12/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty colluvium derived from acid shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Ohio Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/12/2008 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—170

    —18—

    —152—
    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

    9

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    —

    256

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    1153

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    179

    12.1

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    KY5243

    Maysville Sewage Plant

    coop
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3646
    Bt/A—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3647
    Bt1—25 to 71 centimeters (9.8 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 75 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-38-75 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3648
    Bt2—71 to 112 centimeters (28.0 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) fine and medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 75 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-75 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3649
    Bt3—112 to 170 centimeters (44.1 to 66.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silty clay loam; 25 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) medium faint mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct clay films; 1 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-74-150 millimeter shale, acid fragments and 1 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3650
    C—170 to 180 centimeters (66.9 to 70.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) silty clay; structureless massive; very firm; 1 percent by volume flat 2-74-150 millimeter ironstone nodules fragments and 1 percent by volume flat very strongly coherent cemented 2-74-150 millimeter shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KY3651