IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959PA077001
  • User Pedon ID: S1959PA077001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 504
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA077001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44437
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.5000000
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6827778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Site located in PA011 McLaine Farm, 85' S of T781, 130' E of west corner of woods, 0.5 mi NE of Saegersville.
  • Map Unit: LbD—Laidig very gravelly loam, 8 to 25 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA077—Lehigh
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA077—Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-E6—Topton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Carey, M. Yoworski, C. Engle, E. Mason
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montevallo
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, subactive, thermic, shallow Typic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1959 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    TRPR2

    Trifolium pratense

    red clover

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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

    23

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    232

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    225

    1100

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03946
    BC—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 40 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03947. Some clay bridging.
    C1—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; structureless massive; loose, friable; 90 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03948. Structureless.
    C2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior clay loam, silt; friable; 95 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03949. Clay and silt coatings on dark gray (5Y 4/1) shale. Fractured shale.