IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989PA055012
  • User Pedon ID: 89PA055012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0278
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62211
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 1/4mi E of Pleasant Hall (intersection of 0997 & 0533)
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA055—Franklin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WRK, NBE, EAW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, euic Aquic Dystrochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, euic Aquic Dystrochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: with <10
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—33

    33—53

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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

    3

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described;. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    Be—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very channery silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 30 percent by volume igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described;. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bw—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) extremely channery silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 60 percent by volume igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01756; moist when described;. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    C—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) extremely channery silt loam; massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 80 percent by volume igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; diffuse irregular boundary.; moist when described;. (10YR 7/1) decomposed rock fragments; these undrainage mottles are common in pockets; seem to develop as a substitute for clay accumulation; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    R—76 centimeters (29.9 inches); fragments.