IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962PA057017
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA057017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 383
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA057017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44302
  • Print Date: 4/1/2025

    • 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: 39.9908333
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0852778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Swope farm, 410 ft E of schoolhouse, S of Rt 30, 1.3 mi W of Harrisonville, Licking Creek Twp.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA057—Fulton
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA057—Fulton County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39078-H1—Meadow Grounds, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, R. Matelski, F. Loughry, N. Churchill, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 3 in/hr of percolation rate and 6 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 12.78 in/hr of percolation rate and 13.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 96 in/hr of percolation rate and 100 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/29/1962 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    2GP

    ZEMA

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    Zea mays

    Grass, perennial

    corn

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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

    5

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    303

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    315

    950

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    10.1

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02872. "30% coarse fragments, mostly under 2 inches."
    Bw—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 30 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02873. 40-45% shale to two inches; thin partial clay films.
    BC—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 75 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02874. 50-55% shale to 3 inches; structure modified by shale; few clay films on rock planes.
    C—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt, clay; 95 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02875. 95% siltstone and shale.
    R—89 to 104 centimeters (35.0 to 40.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU02876. Shale and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) siltstone.