IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IN071010
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IN071010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JN7810
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22895
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 38.8389278
  • Std. Longitude: -86.0386583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 792 feet north and 264 feet west of the southeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN071—Jackson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nagel and Macdonald
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/1978
  • 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: 8/10/1978 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    58

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    A1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78101
    A2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78102
    B2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) stony silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN78103
    B3—46 to 91 centimeters (18.1 to 35.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) stony silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # JN78104