IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IN021031
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IN021031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - CL7731
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22656
  • 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: 39.3904917
  • Std. Longitude: -86.9629833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet west and 1800 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN021—Clay

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mccarter and Neely
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 31
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; stony silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77311
    A2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) stony very fine sandy loam; weak very coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; friable; 35 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77312
    B1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) stony silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77313
    B21—28 to 61 centimeters (11.0 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) stony loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77314
    B22—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) stony silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # CL77315
    C—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) stony loam; massive; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # CL77316
    CR—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; massive; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # CL77317