IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959PA077006
  • User Pedon ID: S1959PA077006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 509
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA077006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44442
  • 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: 40.5616667
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7141667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Site located in PA011 Walbert Farm, 40 ft S of the diversion 12 ft above the strip boundary.
  • Map Unit: BkC—Berks-Weikert complex, 8 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA077—Lehigh
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA077—Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40075-E6—Topton, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, J. Carey, M. Yoworski, C. Engle, E. Mason
  • 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: PSU
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Montevallo
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, subactive, thermic, shallow Typic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/15/1959 ()
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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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

    18

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    238

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    170

    1150

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    9.9

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior very channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 40 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03975. "40% fragments to 4"" long, average 1 1/2""."
    BA—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior extremely channery silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 60 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03976. "Structure modified by shale fragments. 60% fragments 1"" to 4"" long. Some clay bridging. Very porous."
    Bw—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior extremely channery silt loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 80 percent by volume ? to 76-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU03977. "Structureless. 80% fragments 1"" to 6"" long. Some clay bridging. Very porous."
    C—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior extremely channery silt loam; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 90 percent by volume ? to 265-? millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03978. "Structureless. 90% fragments 1"" to 8"" long. Partial clay films on shale fragments."