IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957PA025005
  • User Pedon ID: S1957PA025005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 144
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 57PA025005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43487
  • 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: 40.8547222
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5491667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2 mi SW of Tracksville 1/2 mi W of Jonesville; 1/4 mi SW of former Eckhardt School; 240' E of stream below.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA025—Carbon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA025—Carbon County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-G5—Palmerton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F.G. Loughry, W.J. Steputis, G.V. Fisher, R.P. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/2017
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montevallo
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, subactive, thermic, shallow Typic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/1957 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    2SHRUB

    POCO

    PRUNU

    RUFL

    SOLID

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    Poa compressa

    Prunus

    Rubus flagellaris

    Solidago

    Shrub (>.5m)

    Canada bluegrass

    plum

    northern dewberry

    goldenrod

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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

    24

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    259

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    270

    1150

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    9.6

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 50 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01041. "About 50% coarse fagments up to 6x4x1""; thickness ranges from 4 to 7""."
    BC—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior extremely channery silty clay loam; platy structure; friable; 75 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromcresol green; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01042. "75% of coarse fragments up to 6x4x1""; thickness ranges from 6 to 12""."
    C1—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior silt loam, clay; friable; 90 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01043. "Coatings on stone fragments which make up 90% of the soil mass; thickness ranges from 5 to 8""."
    C2—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior silt loam, clay; 98 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01044. Coatings on upper surfacesof bluish gray (5BG 4/1) stones which make up 98% of soil mass.