IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IN013002
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IN013002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - BR8102
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23737
  • 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: 39.1736111
  • Std. Longitude: -86.2584306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 125 feet west and 2600 feet south of the northeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN013—Brown

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Noble and Ziegler
  • 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 - 1/28/1981
  • 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: Illinois formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/28/1981 (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

    42

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; channery silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # BR81021
    A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # BR81022
    B1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # BR81023
    B2—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 18 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # BR81024
    B3—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) channery silt loam; friable; 10 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # BR81025