IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1986IL191008
  • User Pedon ID: 1986IL191008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86IL191008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22021
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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 #: 8
  • 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 - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandstone and shale residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone and shale at 51cm
  • 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

    51 - 152

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—13

    13—51

    51—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

    10

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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; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, lamotte-morgan; clear boundary. Lab sample # IL33274
    E—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine sandy loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots between peds; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, lamotte-morgan; clear boundary. Lab sample # IL33275
    Bw1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) channery fine sandy loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 5.0 fine roots between peds; 10 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, lamotte-morgan; clear boundary. Lab sample # IL33276
    Bw2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) very channery fine sandy loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 25 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented sedimentary, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, lamotte-morgan; clear boundary. Lab sample # IL33277
    Cr—51 to 152 centimeters (20.1 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; massive; fragments.