IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA027016
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA027016
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 178
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA027016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43523
  • 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: 41.0255556
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6727778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.1 mi W on T484 from Jct 14012; 142' from W Penn Sys. Pole No. 416883 at 350 deg. (250 deg. from fnce cornr)
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA027—Centre County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41077-A6—Howard, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. G. Loughry and R. H. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 210 in/hr of percolation rate and 370 in/hr of percolation rate and 370 in/hr of percolation rate and 470 in/hr of percolation rate and 490 in/hr of percolation rate and 500 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/19/1964 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    2MOSS

    DASP2

    HIERA

    POPR

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    Danthonia spicata

    Hieracium

    Poa pratensis

    Moss

    poverty oatgrass

    hawkweed

    Kentucky bluegrass

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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

    36

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    —

    226

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    180

    1000

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    9.8

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01269
    BA—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; 25 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01270. Few clay films on upper surface of shale fragments.
    Bw1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent faint clay films; 35 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01271
    Bw2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 35 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01272
    BC—64 to 69 centimeters (25.2 to 27.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior extremely channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 60 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01273. 7.5YR 5/6 strong brown mottling on surfaces of the shale; silt and clay patches in large pore flows; zone of seepage of perched ground water.
    C1—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior and gray (N 6/0) interior extremely channery silt loam; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 80 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01274. Shows stratification of shale siltstone; Partial clay films on upper sides of shale with some silt deposition on upper sides of shale.
    C2—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) interior silt loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 90 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01275. Shale fragments from 1-100 mm in size; Texture-A few deposits of fine soil on upper side of large fragments-most fragments washed clean.
    C3—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); silt loam; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01276. Coatings: 10YR 6/1 light gray 7.5YR 5/6 strong brown 2.5Y 5/4 light olive brown; partly weathered siltstone and clay shale; shale.