IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984OH081020
  • User Pedon ID: 1984OH081020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - JF-020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72168
  • 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: 40.3916056
  • Std. Longitude: -80.8118417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 590 ft. W and 1340 Ft. S of NE corner of Sec. 19; T10N R3W
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH081—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 126—Central Allegheny Plateau
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40080-D7—Richmond, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tim Gerber; Rick Buzard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2013
  • Classifier - Dan Benyei
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1984 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    58 - 64

    - 6 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—58

    58—64

    —13—

    —45—

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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

    20

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    329.2

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; channery silt loam; 22 percent sand; 54 percent silt; 24 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; many (6.9) roots; 25 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) very channery silt loam; 20 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.1) roots; 40 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery silt loam; 20 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) roots; 65 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-75-150 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary.
    R—58 to 64 centimeters (22.8 to 25.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.