IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86KY-069-005
  • User Pedon ID: 86KY-069-005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 86KY-069-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KY-069-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46757
  • 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: 38.3769951
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4659958
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Atlas sheet #1-19; about 1 mile northeast of Ryan; 0.5 mile est of confluence of Black Stairs Branch and Fox Creek; 30 feet south of Black Stairs Branch. X: 2,224,680 feet, Y: 320,200 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY069—Fleming
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY069—Fleming County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: O. Whitaker, S. Jacobs, J. Robbins, K. Bates, and K. Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Sandstone member of Borden formation, colluvium and residuum of sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 84cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/6/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACRU

    CARYA

    FAGUS

    QUPR2

    Acer rubrum

    Carya

    Fagus

    Quercus prinus

    red maple

    hybrid hickory

    beech

    chestnut oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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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

    55

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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) very channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots and 10.0 coarse roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2869
    Bw1—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY2870. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639048; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639048
    Bw2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2871. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639049; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 639049
    Bw3—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2872. continuous - phpvsfiid 639050; continuous - phpvsfiid 639050
    2BC—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay; 15 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint and 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY2873
    3R—84 centimeters (33.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY2874