IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IN071002
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IN071002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - JN8002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23487
  • 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: 39.0041889
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3050167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1650 feet west and 495 feet south of the northeast corner THE
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN071—Jackson

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Nagel and Struben
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mesic Typic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Siltst + Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/8/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A1—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) channery silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 2 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN80022
    B2—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # JN80023
    B3—43 to 89 centimeters (16.9 to 35.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4. Lab sample # JN80024