IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962PA011002
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA011002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 65
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 40.4536111
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1616667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Schrack farm, 105 ft S of Rt 83 and T951 jct. at E end of Schaefferstown, Jefferson Twp., Berks Co.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA011—Berks
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA011—Berks County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-D2—Strausstown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John B. Carey, Franklin Ackerman
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: shale and siltstone
  • Geology: Martinsburg formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/19/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    MESA

    PHLEU

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    alfalfa

    timothy

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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

    11

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    152

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    270

    1100

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    10.3

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky; 40 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior very channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; 6 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 35 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky; clay films; 50 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear irregular boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 244647; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 244647
    C1—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior extremely channery silt loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky; clay films on surfaces along pores; 95 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior extremely channery silt loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky; clay films on surfaces along pores; 95 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0.; moist when described; observed in pit, small