IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986WV047002
  • User Pedon ID: 86WV047002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0685
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58979
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 37.3958321
  • Std. Longitude: -81.6319427
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: McDowell County, WV, 1 mi W of WV Route 16 and 1 mi N of Coalwood.
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV047—McDowell
  • MLRA: 125—Cumberland Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Barrie Wolf and Frank Doonan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    68

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P03985. 20 percent rock frgments.; common fine and medium roots
    Oi—2 to 0 centimeters (0.8 to 0.0 inches); undecomposed organic matter, partially decomposed organic matter; fragments.
    BA—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03986. 25 percent rock fragments.; common fine and medium roots
    Bw1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03987. 40 percent rock fragments.; few fine roots
    Bw2—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03988. 55 percent rock fragments.; few fine roots
    BC—71 to 81 centimeters (28.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior extremely channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03989. 65 percent rock fragments.; few fine roots
    R—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Brown and gray fractured siltstone.