IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983KY195006
  • User Pedon ID: 83KY195006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0669
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53456
  • Print Date: 4/1/2025

    • LOCATION

  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY195—Pike
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: unconsolidated sediments derived from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: pediment
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    80

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    —

    —

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    315

    1132

    —

    188

    14.5

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    156353

    PIKEVILLE

    SA COOP
    1A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); 10YR 4/ (10YR 4/), interior channery silt loam; friable; 15 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03292
    1E/BA—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; friable; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Not sampled.
    1Bw1—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior channery silt loam; friable; 30 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03293
    1Bw2—56 to 72 centimeters (22.0 to 28.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery silt loam; friable; 45 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P03294
    1BC—72 to 85 centimeters (28.3 to 33.5 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior very channery silty clay loam; firm; 65 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Not sampled.
    1R—85 to 95 centimeters (33.5 to 37.4 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Siltstone and Bk shale.