IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989PA055017
  • User Pedon ID: 89PA055017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0283
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62216
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: SW portion of photo #54
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA055—Franklin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WRK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Haplaquods
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Haplaquods
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1989 (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
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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog.
    E—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog.
    Bw1—5 to 51 centimeters (2.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4); fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog.
    Bw2—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silt loam; light gray (10YR 7/2) mottles; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P01763. mottles in Bw2 ass. with soft shale fragments
    CR—86 centimeters (33.9 inches); fragments.