IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S02WV019001
  • User Pedon ID: S02WV019001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N1119
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15590
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 37.9013333
  • Std. Longitude: -81.1972500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Location: above the Georgia Pacific plant in Mount Hope, WV. Vegetation - Sourwood, Sassafras, Black Gum, Hickory, Locust. *SS bedrock (lots of weatherables...by appearance).
  • Map Unit: BHF—Berks-Highsplint-Sharondale association, very steep, very stony
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV019—Fayette
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains
  • Regional Office: 6—Morgantown, WV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV705—Fayette and Raleigh Counties Area, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • 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: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy-skeletal residuum weathered from shale and siltstone
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Kanawha formation of the Pottsville group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: sourwood, sassafras, black gum, hickory
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    85 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—28

    28—69

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    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

    62

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    670.5

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    Oi1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 02N05940; observed in pit, small
    Oi2—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 02N05941; observed in pit, small
    Oe—6 to 9 centimeters (2.4 to 3.5 inches); 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05942; observed in pit, small
    A—9 to 21 centimeters (3.5 to 8.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 25 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05943; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BA—21 to 28 centimeters (8.3 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 2.0 coarse roots throughout; 25 percent by volume unspecified fragments, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05944; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—28 to 54 centimeters (11.0 to 21.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume unspecified fragments, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05945; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—54 to 69 centimeters (21.3 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 50 percent by volume unspecified fragments, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N05946; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—69 to 85 centimeters (27.2 to 33.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 70 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 02N05947; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—85 centimeters (33.5 inches); fragments.; moist when described; observed in pit, small