IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1965PA055005
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA055005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 357
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA055005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44273
  • 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: 39.9636111
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7375000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Young farm, 600 ft SW of Portico School, 1.5 mi SE of Freys, Hamilton Twp.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA055—Franklin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA055—Franklin County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-H6—Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, F. Loughry, R. Long
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 3/19/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 11 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/19/1965 ()
  • 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

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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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

    11

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    194

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    315

    1000

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    10.5

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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, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02781
    Bw—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine blocky, and subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films; 60 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02782. Structure modified by shale chips.; patchy - phpvsfiid 533054; patchy - phpvsfiid 533054
    BC—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films; 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02783. Structure modified by shale chips.; patchy - phpvsfiid 533055; patchy - phpvsfiid 533055
    C—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior silt loam; 95 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02784. Roots to 32 inches.
    R—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU02785