IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1959PA077007
  • User Pedon ID: 1959PA077007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 510
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA077007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44444
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 40.5625000
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7144444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Walbert Farm, 44 ft N along the woods, 1 mi SE of New Smithville.
  • 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 Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kistler
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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: 7/15/1959 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    MESA

    PHLEU

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    alfalfa

    timothy

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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

    5

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    239

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    170

    1150

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03979. 10% shale fragments 1/4 to 1 inch.
    Bw1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent by volume ? to 11-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03980. Partial clay films. 20% shale fragments 1/2 to 1 inch.
    Bw2—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent by volume ? to 39-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU03981. Modified by shale. Partial clay films. 30% shale fragments 1/2 to 1 1/2 inches.
    BC—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior extremely channery silt loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 85 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03982. Silt and clay filling crack sin shale. 85% shale fragments 1/2 to 3 inches. Some clay bridging and coatings on fragments.
    C—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior extremely channery silt loam; 90 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03983. 90% shale fragments 1/2 to 4 inches.