IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1986IL191007
  • User Pedon ID: 1986IL191007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86IL191007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22020
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Section: 20
  • Location Description: Leech Township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL191—Wayne
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL191—Wayne County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BEC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandstone and shale residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone and shale at 71cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    71 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—71

    71—152

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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

    20

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots between peds; 2 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, lamotte-morgan; clear boundary. Lab sample # IL33269
    Bw1—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots between peds; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, lamotte-morgan; gradual boundary. Lab sample # IL33270. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427660; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 427660
    Bw2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) channery fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots between peds; distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, lamotte-morgan; gradual boundary. Lab sample # IL33271. patchy - phpvsfiid 427661; patchy - phpvsfiid 427661
    Bw3—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) very channery loamy fine sand; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots between peds; 50 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, lamotte-morgan; gradual boundary. Lab sample # IL33272
    BC—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) extremely channery fine sandy loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 75 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, lamotte-morgan; gradual boundary. Lab sample # IL33273
    Cr—71 to 152 centimeters (28.0 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; massive; fragments.