IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957PA025003
  • User Pedon ID: S1957PA025003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 142
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43485
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 40.8547222
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5936111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mi S of forest Inn field E of Rt 13016, 60' S of SW corner of woods 20' E of W edge of former Orchard.
  • Map Unit: HaB2—Hartleton channery silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, moderately eroded
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA025—Carbon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA025—Carbon County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-G5—Palmerton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F.G. Loughry, W.J. Steputis, G.V. Fisher, R.P. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hartleton
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/1957 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ALLIU

    POCO

    PRUNU

    RHUS

    RUFL

    SOLID

    Allium

    Poa compressa

    Prunus

    Rhus

    Rubus flagellaris

    Solidago

    onion

    Canada bluegrass

    plum

    sumac

    northern dewberry

    goldenrod

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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

    20

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    299

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    180

    1150

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 45 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01033. "40 to 50% sandstone and shale fragments upto 6x4x1""; stone pavement on surface with stone fragments averaging 1x1x1/2""; thickness ranges from 4 to 6""."
    BC—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior extremely channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 60 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01034. "About 60% sandstone and shale fragments upto 6x6x2""; thickness ranges from 4 to 10""."
    C1—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; friable; 90 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01035. "Fragments upto 6x6x2"" make up about 90% of total; thickness ranges from 10 to 14""."
    C2—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior channers; friable; 98 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01036. Siltstone with silt and clay coatings on upper surface of stone fragments.