IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IN175017
  • User Pedon ID: 2015IN175001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WS8017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23489
  • 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: 38.5499806
  • Std. Longitude: -85.8913639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1250 feet north and 1800 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN175—Washington

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robards and Wade
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/3/2015
  • Classifier - Steve neyhouse
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 10/30/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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: 10/30/1980 (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 -
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    79 - 104

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    18—56

    79—

    —18—

    —38—

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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

    38

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt; weak fine granular structure; friable; 10 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WS80171; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    E—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # WS80172; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—18 to 56 centimeters (7.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # WS80173; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; massive; friable; 10 percent by volume 2-10-19 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 19-47-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # WS80174; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small