IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988PA021011
  • User Pedon ID: 88PA021011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 134
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88PA021011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43476
  • 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: 40.5177778
  • Std. Longitude: -78.7661111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: ASPECT = 141 DEGREES
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA021—Cambria
  • MLRA: 127—Eastern Allegheny Plateau and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Knight, M. Cessna, R. Schweinsberg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: DDRP
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/5/2014
  • Classifier - Katey Yoast
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilpin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, acid Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 14 to 42 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/1989
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/1988 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other 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

    FAGR

    PIRE

    PRSE2

    ROPS

    Acer rubrum

    Fagus grandifolia

    Pinus resinosa

    Prunus serotina

    Robinia pseudoacacia

    red maple

    American beech

    red pine

    black cherry

    black locust

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    94 - 104

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—14

    14—42

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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

    5

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    664

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    135

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    Oe—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); black (N 2/0) interior; weak very fine and fine crumb structure; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06821; moist when described;
    Ap—6 to 20 centimeters (2.4 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior channery silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU06822; moist when described;
    Bt—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior channery silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 14 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay films on surfaces along pores; 25 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06823; moist when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 1346906; continuous - phpvsfiid 1346906
    CB1—48 to 68 centimeters (18.9 to 26.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.1 fine and medium roots throughout; 40 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # PSU06824; moist when described;
    CB2—68 to 94 centimeters (26.8 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior very channery silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.1 fine and medium roots throughout; 40 percent by volume angular ? to 76-? millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU06825; moist when described;
    R—94 to 104 centimeters (37.0 to 40.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU06826