IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ramsey
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94KY-133-002
  • User Pedon ID: 94KY-133-002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 94KY-133-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KY-133-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47433
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Letcher County, KY; 100 feet W of old sand pit road, 200 feet NE of the Little Shephard Trail on Pine Mountain. X: 2,856,200, Y: 2,821,250.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY133—Letcher
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-LON—London, Kentucky
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY626—Knott and Letcher Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37082-A7—Whitesburg, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.S. Aldridge
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ramsey
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ramsey
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum of Lower Pennsylvanian Lee Sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 41cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/1994 (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

    ACRU

    PIVI2

    QUVE

    Acer rubrum

    Pinus virginiana

    Quercus velutina

    red maple

    Virginia pine

    black oak

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    41 -

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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

    45

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3607
    Bw1—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3608
    Bw2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3609
    BC—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3610
    R—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3611