IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): BERKS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997WV093008
  • User Pedon ID: 97WV093008
  • User Site Association ID: 8869
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 42G2
  • Transect Stop Number - 8
  • Transect Interval - 652.9
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0154
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Above confluence of Hile and Horshoe Runs.
  • 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-B5—Lead Mine, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Carpenter, C. Delp
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - BERKS
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1997
  • 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: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 14.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microdepression
  • 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

    66

    300

    200

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    L—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 98P00963
    Oi/e—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); Error; 3.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 30 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00964
    A—6 to 15 centimeters (2.4 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face very channery silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 40 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00965
    BA—15 to 24 centimeters (5.9 to 9.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face very channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 30 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00966
    Bw1—24 to 52 centimeters (9.4 to 20.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face very channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine to coarse roots between peds; 40 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00967
    Bw2—52 to 93 centimeters (20.5 to 36.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face extremely channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots between peds; 70 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-shale fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 98P00968
    R—93 to 118 centimeters (36.6 to 46.5 inches); fragments. R is fractured but fairly level-bedded siltstone.