LOCATION FEDSCREEK KY
Established Series
JDM, PSA/Rev MDJ
08/2014
FEDSCREEK SERIES
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Fedscreek channery loam on a 67 percent southwest facing slope under mixed hardwoods (white oak dominant) at 1,520 feet elevation. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
Oi -- 0 to 3 cm (0 to 1 inches); undecomposed hardwood leaf litter; very strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (0 to 3 cm, 0 to 3 inches thick)
A-- 3 to 13 cm (1 to 5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) channery loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; common medium roots; 15 percent sandstone fragments; very strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (3 to 18 cm, 1 to 7 inches thick)
BA -- 13 to 23 cm (5 to 9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine and medium roots; 15 percent sandstone fragments; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary (0 to 15 cm, 0 to 6 inches thick)
Bw1-- 23 to 43 cm (9 to 17 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine to coarse roots; 15 percent sandstone fragments; very strongly acid; gradual smooth boundary.
Bw2-- 43 to79 cm (17 to 31 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; few fine to coarse roots; 20 percent sandstone fragments; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary.
Bw3--79 to 104 cm (31 to 41 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; few fine to coarse roots; 25 percent sandstone fragments; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary.
Bw4--104 to 124 cm (41 to 49 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) channery loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; few fine and medium roots; few thin discontinuous strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) coatings on faces of peds; 25 percent sandstone fragments; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bw horizon is 94 to 127 cm, 37 to 50 inches.).
C1--124 to 155 cm (49 to 61 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) very channery loam; massive; firm; few medium roots; very few thin discontinuous strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) coatings on fractured surfaces and rock fragments; 35 percent sandstone fragments; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary.
C2--155 to 168 cm (61to 66 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) channery silt loam with few medium distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) lithochromic mottles; massive; firm; 30 percent sandstone fragments; very strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (0 to 51cm, 0 to 20 inches thick or more)
R--168 cm (66 inches); interbedded sandstone and siltstone.
TYPE LOCATION:
County: Pike
State: Kentucky
USGS Quadrangle: Millard
Latitude (Decimal Degrees, NAD 83): 37.4772
Longitude (Decimal Degrees, NAD 83): -82.3875
Directions to the pedon: Pike County, Kentucky; about 1 mile east of the confluence of Slones Fork and Morris Branch in the head of Raccoon Creek; about 7.2 miles south of the community of Zebulon;
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Depth to the top of the Cambic: 03 to 18 cm (1 to 7 inches)
Depth to the base of the Cambic: 94 to 127 cm (49 to 50 inches)
Solum Thickness: 100 to 183 cm (inches)
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 100 cm (40 inches)
Depth Class: deep and very deep
Rock Fragment content: 5 to 60 percent, by volume, but average less than 35 percent in the particle-size control section: 25 to 100 cm (10 to 40inches
Soil Reaction: very strongly acid to moderately acid, except A horizon can be slightly acid
Range of Individual Horizons:
A horizon:
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 10YR, value of 3 to 5, and chroma of 2 to 4
Texture (fine-earth fraction) -- sandy loam, loam, or silt loam
AB or BA (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 10YR, value of 3 to 6 , and chroma of 2 to 8
Texture (fine-earth fraction) -- sandy loam, loam, or silt loam
B horizon:
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 10YR, value of 4 to 6 , and chroma of 3 to 8
Texture (fine-earth fraction) -- sandy loam, loam or silt loam
Mottles (if they occur) -- lithochromic mottles in shades of brown, yellow, or red and in the lower part shades of gray
Other features-some thin clay or silt coatings are not present in all pedons
C horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 3 to 8,
Texture (fine-earth fraction) -- sandy loam, loam, clay loam, silt loam, or silty clay loam
Mottles (if they occur) -- Some pedons have lithochromic mottles in shades of brown, yellow, red, or gray.
Other features -- some thin clay or silt coatings are not present in all pedons
Cr horizon (if it occurs):
weathered thin interbedded sandstone or siltstone and less commonly shale
R horizon (if it occurs):
unweathered -- interbedded sandstone or siltstone and less commonly shale
COMPETING SERIES:
Bannertown soils -- somewhat excessively drained, moderately deep over felsic metamorphic or igneous bedrock
Cheshire soils -- formed in supraglacial till on uplands
Devotion soils -- moderately deep over felsic to intermediate metamorphic or igneous bedrock
Ditney soils -- moderately deep over arkose, metagraywacke, metasandstone or quartzite bedrock
Marrowbone soils -- moderately deep over interbedded sandstone and siltstone bedrock
Maymead soils -- formed in colluvium deposited by local alluvium and contain fragments of feldspathic quartzite, graywacke and arkosic sandstone
Mine Run soils -- somewhat excessively drained, moderately deep over metamonzonite and gneiss bedrock
Tipsaw soils -- moderately deep over moderately cemented sandstone interbedded with siltstone and shale bedrock
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
MLRA(s): 125 (Cumberland Plateau and Mountains)
Landscape: hills and mountains
Landform: hillslope, mountain side,
Geomorphic Component: benches, side slope, base slopes
Hillslope Profile Position: back slope, footslope and toeslopes
Parent Material Origin: sandstone and siltstone
Parent Material Kind: Colluvium
Slope: 8 to 90 percent
Elevation: 183 to 1219 meters, 600 to 4000 feet
Frost-free period: 149 to 236 days
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 11.67 to 15.00 degrees C, 53 to 59 degrees F
Mean Annual Precipitation: 1016 to 1244.6 millimeters 40 to 49 inches
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
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Berks soils-- are loamy-skeletal
Cloverlick soils-- are deep or very deep and have umbric surface layers and are loamy-skeletal
Cutshin soils-- are deep or very deep and have umbric surface layers and are fine-loamy
Gilpin soils-- have argillic horizons and are fine-loamy
Handshoe soils-- are deep or very deep and are loamy-skeletal
Highsplint soils-- are deep or very deep and are loamy-skeletal
Jefferson soils-- have mixed mineralogy
Kimper soils-- are deep or very deep and have umbric surface layers and are fine-loamy
Latham soils-are moderately deep and have argillic horizons and are fine
Matewan soils-- are moderately deep and loamy-skeletal
Marrowbone soils -- moderately deep over interbedded sandstone and siltstone bedrock
Muskingum soils-- are moderately deep and fine-loamy
Pineville soils-- are deep or very deep and have argillic horizons and are fine-loamy
Rayne soils-- are deep and have argillic horizons and are fine-loamy
Sharondale soils-- are deep or very deep and have mollic surface layers and are fine-loamy
Shelocta soils-- are deep or very deep and have argillic horizons and are fine-loamy
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Drainage Class (Agricultural): Well drained
Internal Free Water Occurrence: None
Index Surface Runoff: Low on less than 20 percent slopes and medium above 20 percent slopes
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Class: Medium
Permeability Class (obsolete): Moderately rapid
Shrink-Swell Class: Low
Flooding Frequency and Duration: None
Ponding Frequency and Duration: None
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: forestry
Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated- Less sloping areas are used for pasture and as sites for houses or gardens - . Where wooded--are in secondary growth hardwood forest with mixed stands of white oak, American beech, mockernut hickory, pignut hickory, black oak, sugar maple, sassafras, red maple, chestnut oak, Virginia pine, and flowering dogwood.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: are in the Allegheny-Cumberland Plateau of eastern Kentucky with possible similar areas in West Virginia, Virginia, and eastern Tennessee
Extent: Large, approximately 200,000 acres.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Pike County, Kentucky, 1985.
REMARKS:
Fedscreek soils were mostly mapped as Jefferson or Shelocta soils in the past.
Diagnostic horizons and soil characteristics recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon--the zone from 3 to 13 cm (1 to 5 inches) (Ap horizon)
Cambic horizon--the zone from 13 to 124 cm, 05 to 49 inches (BA, Bw horizon)
Lithic contract-- 168 cm (66 inches)
Series control section--the zone from 10 to 60 inches
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ADDITIONAL DATA:
Characterization data is available from the KSSL for the following pedons:
Characterization sample S83KY-195-018 by NSSL. Supplement data for pedons S83KY-195-011 and reference samples S82KY-195-8, 9, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21, and 22.
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.