IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shrouts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KY-011-011
  • User Pedon ID: 99KY-011-011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 99KY-011-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KY-011-011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47507
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Bath County, KY; about 0.8 mile NE junction of the Vance Road and US-60; about 0.2 mile N of Polksville on the northwest facing slope near the summit of a hill.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY011—Bath
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY011—Bath County, Kentucky
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38083-B6—Colfax, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Hines and S. Jacobs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shrouts
  • PSC - 10 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shrouts
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum of soft calcareous clay shales of the Upper Crab Orchard formation
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, calcareous at 86cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/8/1999 (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

    JUVI

    LOAR10

    ROPS

    Juniperus virginiana

    Lolium arundinaceum

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    eastern redcedar

    tall fescue

    black locust

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    86 -

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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

    26

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4051
    Bt1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 50 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4052
    Bt2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 50 percent prominent gray (5Y 6/1) clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent prominent gray (5Y 6/1) clay films on rock fragments; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4053
    BC—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) channery silty clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 50 percent prominent gray (5Y 6/1) clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent prominent gray (5Y 6/1) clay films on rock fragments; 15 percent coarse light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) carbonate concretions and 15 percent medium pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) carbonate concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4054
    C—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) channery silty clay; platy structure; very firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY4055
    Cr—86 to 97 centimeters (33.9 to 38.2 inches); bedrock; 0.5 fine roots around fragments; fragments. Lab sample # KY4056