IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986WV005006
  • User Pedon ID: 86WV005006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0692
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58986
  • Print Date: 4/1/2025

    • 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: 38.0149994
  • Std. Longitude: -81.8758316
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Boone County, WV, 350 yards SW of intersection of US 119 and Low Gap Road.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV005—Boone
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Barrie Wolf and Frank Doonan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • 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

    68

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    270

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior very channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04028. 40 percent rock fragments.; many fine roots
    BA—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior very channery loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04029. 45 percent rock fragments.; common very fine and fine roots
    Bw—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04030. 60 percent rock fragments.; common very fine roots
    BC—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior extremely channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04031. 75 percent rock fragments.; few very fine roots
    R—58 to 68 centimeters (22.8 to 26.8 inches); fragments. Moderately hard, fractured, grey and brown siltstone with roots along fractured planes.