IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH005008
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH005-008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AS-008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70065
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Hanover Twp., Sec.22; SW4 of SE4; Photo No. CLS-2G-132.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH005—Ashland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. J. Baker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone + siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    32

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    338.9

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak fine granular structure; friable; 25 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # OSU0014655
    Bw1—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) Error; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6. Lab sample # OSU0014656
    Bw2—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4. Lab sample # OSU0014657
    Bw3—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # OSU0014658
    BC—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # OSU0014659