IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962OH005009
  • User Pedon ID: 1962-OH005-009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - AS-009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70043
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Hanover Twp., Sec. 22; SW4 of SE4; Photo No. CLS-2G-132
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH005—Ashland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. J. Baker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Colluvium; Sandstone + siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/29/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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

    31

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) Error; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014660. Channers range to one inch across.
    Bw1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014661. Channers range to six inches across.
    Bw2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) Error; medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 75 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0014662. Channers flags, and a few stones up to 12 to 14 inches across and three inches thick; fragments consist of both fine-grained sandstone and siltstone.
    R—58 to 64 centimeters (22.8 to 25.2 inches); fragments. Fine-grained sandstone and siltstone colluvial rock with very small amount of soil materials in crevices.