IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA055061
  • User Pedon ID: 1988PA055061
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 365
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA055061
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44282
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 40.2361111
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6836111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT - 80 DEGREES
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA055—Franklin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA055—Franklin County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Knight, B. Custer, N. Ellenberger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 61
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/28/1988 ()
  • 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

    ACRU

    PRSE2

    QUAL

    QUPR2

    QURU

    Acer rubrum

    Prunus serotina

    Quercus alba

    Quercus prinus

    Quercus rubra

    red maple

    black cherry

    white oak

    chestnut oak

    northern red oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—9

    9—24

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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

    21

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    399

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    90

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior moderately decomposed plant material; weak fine crumb structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, bromcresol green; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07045; moist when described;
    A—3 to 12 centimeters (1.2 to 4.7 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior channery silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine crumb structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, bromcresol green; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07046; moist when described;
    Bw—12 to 27 centimeters (4.7 to 10.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume subangular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, bromcresol green; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU07047; moist when described;
    C—27 to 53 centimeters (10.6 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior extremely channery silt loam; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.1 fine and medium roots throughout; 38 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout; 90 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, bromcresol green; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU07048; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533073; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533073
    R—53 to 63 centimeters (20.9 to 24.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # PSU07049