IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997WV093002
  • User Pedon ID: 97WV093002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0148
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10420
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV093—Tucker
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV093—Tucker County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39079-A7—Montrose, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jenkins, Carpenter, Delp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, active, nonacid, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/4/2014
  • Classifier - Katey Yoast
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Classificaton Date - 7/29/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/29/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    48

    50

    100

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    45

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments.
    Oi/Oe—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); fine and medium roots throughout; 10 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    A—6 to 10 centimeters (2.4 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very fine to coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00913
    BA—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; fine to coarse roots throughout; 15 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00914
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fine and medium roots between peds; 1 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00915. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1346873; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1346873
    Bt2—41 to 65 centimeters (16.1 to 25.6 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fine and medium roots between peds; 10 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00916. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1346874; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1346874
    2Bt3—65 to 82 centimeters (25.6 to 32.3 inches); 80 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face very channery loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; fine roots between peds; 10 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on faces of peds; 40 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00917. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1346875; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1346875
    2C—82 to 100 centimeters (32.3 to 39.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face extremely channery loam; fine roots around fragments; 60 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00918