IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1986IL191006
  • User Pedon ID: 1986IL191006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86IL191006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22019
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Section: 20
  • Location Description: Leech Township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL191—Wayne
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL191—Wayne County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MM MA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandstone and shale residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone and shale at 48cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1986 (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 -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    48 - 152

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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    8—15

    15—48

    48—152

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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

    9

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33265
    E—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very channery loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak medium platy structure; friable; 5.0 fine roots between peds; faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33266. patchy - phpvsfiid 427659; patchy - phpvsfiid 427659
    Bw—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) extremely flaggy loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 fine roots between peds; faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 30 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, lamotte-morgan; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL33267. patchy - phpvsfiid 427657; patchy - phpvsfiid 427657
    BC—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) extremely flaggy fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 75 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, lamotte-morgan; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL33268. patchy - phpvsfiid 427658; patchy - phpvsfiid 427658
    Cr—48 to 152 centimeters (18.9 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; massive; fragments.