IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962PA057018
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA057018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 384
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA057018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44303
  • 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: 40.0052778
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0608333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 10 ft S of farm bdry and 10 ft SE of brush, 125 ft SW of Rt T419, 1.8 mi NW of Rt 76, 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: 40078-A1—Hustontown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, R. Matelski, F. Loughry, N. Churchill, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 18
  • 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: 1.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.62 in/hr of percolation rate and 2 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.62 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    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

    6

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    296

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; 25 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02877. "30-35% shale fragments, most to 1 inch."
    Bw—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films; 35 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02878. 35-40% shale fragments.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533116; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533116
    BC—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films; 70 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02879. 50-55% shale and siltstone to 3 inches; structure modified by shale chips.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533117; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533117
    C—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and olive (5Y 5/4) interior silt, clay; 95 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02880. 95% siltstone and shale fragments; yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and black silt clay films deposited in pockets along bedding planes of yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light olive brown (5Y 5/4) loam.
    R—66 to 80 centimeters (26.0 to 31.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and olive (5Y 5/4) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU02881. Siltstone and shale.