IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 90KY-135-005
  • User Pedon ID: 90KY-135-005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 90KY-135-005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UK
  • Lab Pedon # - 90KY-135-005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46813
  • 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: 38.4519958
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4557190
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lewis County, KY; Atlas sheet 35A; about 2 miles northeast of the junction of KY-559 and KY-344 at Petersville, about 0.3 mile south of the junction of KY-344 and Bee Branch Road, about 500 feet northwest of Bee Branch Road. X: 2,225,750 feet, Y: 347,700 feet.
  • State: Kentucky
  • County: KY135—Lewis
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: 13-2—Huntington, West Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KY135—Lewis County, Kentucky

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Jacobs and D. Dotson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/15/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 1/2/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Residuum of sandstone, siltstone, and shale of the Borden Formation, Mississippian Geologic System
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 64cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/2/1990 (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

    ACSA3

    CARYA

    QUAL

    QUVE

    Acer saccharum

    Carya

    Quercus alba

    Quercus velutina

    sugar maple

    hybrid hickory

    white oak

    black 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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    64 -

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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

    29

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 10.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3218
    Bw1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 30 percent faint silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent faint silt coats on rock fragments; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KY3219
    Bw2—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent faint silt coats on rock fragments; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3220
    Bw3—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 30 percent faint silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent faint silt coats on rock fragments; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KY3221
    R—64 centimeters (25.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KY3222