IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA027015
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA027015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 177
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA027015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43522
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 41.0066667
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6919444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.5 mi N of T482 from Jct w/ 14052. 345 deg. from NE corner of barn, 5 deg. from NE corner of mach. shed
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA027—Centre County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41077-A6—Howard, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. G. Loughry and R. H. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 70 in/hr of percolation rate and 102.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 127.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 150 in/hr of percolation rate and 175 in/hr of percolation rate and 180 in/hr of percolation rate and 285 in/hr of percolation rate and 410 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/19/1964 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    LAKA2

    PIRE

    PIST

    PISY

    ROPS

    RUHA

    SOLID

    VACCI

    Larix kaempferi

    Pinus resinosa

    Pinus strobus

    Pinus sylvestris

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    Rubus hawaiensis

    Solidago

    Vaccinium

    Japanese larch

    red pine

    eastern white pine

    Scots pine

    black locust

    Hawai'i blackberry

    goldenrod

    blueberry

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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

    31

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    232

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    180

    1000

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    9.7

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01263. 25% coarse frag mostly 0.5 to 1 inch.
    Bw—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 30 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01264. Partial thin clay films
    BC—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 40 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01265. Partial clay films on pores and top of shaly fragments; contains perched water.
    C1—61 to 74 centimeters (24.0 to 29.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior extremely channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine faint gray (5Y 6/1) and 11 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6); 60 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01266
    C2—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior extremely channery loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 80 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01267. Silt and clay films on top of shale fragmens.
    C3—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) interior and olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) interior; firm; 14 percent clay films; 11 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2); 90 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01268. Silt loam coatings; some silt and clay coatings in pores; bedded shale and siltstone.