IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shelocta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 94KY-205-002
  • User Pedon ID: 94KY-205-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 94KY-205-002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47447
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Rowan County, KY; on the United States Forest Service Road 117; 3,200 feet north northeast of the intersection of USFS roads 116 and 117.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY205—Rowan
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY645—Menifee and Rowan Counties, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-C4—Cranston, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shelocta
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Loamy colluvium over residuum of weathered shale and siltstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3694
    BA—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 0.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3695
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3696. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638923; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638923
    Bt2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3697. continuous - phpvsfiid 638924; continuous - phpvsfiid 638924
    Bt3—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3698. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638925; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 638925
    2BC—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # KY3699