IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-BA-21
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA017-160
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0160
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51103
  • Print Date: 4/1/2025

    • 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: 38.1877250
  • Std. Longitude: -79.9146444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Minnehaha Springs VA- WV quadrangle; (Pocahontas County, VA); 21350 feet 67 degrees northeast of the intersection of Highways WV-39 and WV-28; 8600 feet 130 degrees southeast of the intersection of Highway WV-28 and Blind Path Road at Westminister Church
  • Map Unit: 57D—Weikert-Berks-Rough complex, 15 to 35 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA017—Bath
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA017—Bath County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-B8—Minnehaha Springs, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 53cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    3—53

    53—

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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

    24

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    1012

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    348

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw1—6 to 39 centimeters (2.4 to 15.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; 12 percent sand; 73 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 35 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01601
    Bw2—39 to 56 centimeters (15.4 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; 12 percent sand; 69 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 45 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # VPI01602
    R—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); fragments.