IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997WV093001
  • User Pedon ID: S1997WV093001
  • User Site Association ID: 8867
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 42F96
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Transect Interval - 656.2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 98P0147
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10419
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Pedon located east of camp horshoe.
  • 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: TJenkins, CDelp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • 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 - 3/18/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/1997 (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

    53

    37

    23

    732

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 98P00905
    Oi/Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); very fine to coarse roots throughout; 60 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00906
    Oa/A—5 to 16 centimeters (2.0 to 6.3 inches); very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) interior; moderate fine and medium granular structure; very friable; very fine to coarse roots throughout; 60 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00907
    BA—16 to 27 centimeters (6.3 to 10.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) broken face; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fine to coarse roots throughout; 50 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00908
    Bt—27 to 63 centimeters (10.6 to 24.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fine to coarse roots throughout; 40 percent by volume subangular 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 98P00909
    BC—63 to 100 centimeters (24.8 to 39.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fine to coarse roots throughout; 50 percent by volume subangular 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone-siltstone fragments; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 98P00910
    R—100 centimeters (39.4 inches); fragments. Fractured fine-grained sandstone, slightly tilted. Some fines in cracks.