IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-AL-7
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA005-146
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0146
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51089
  • 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: 37.7308333
  • Std. Longitude: -80.2483333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Alleghany VA- WV quadrangle; (Alleghany County, VA); 6250 feet 202 degrees southwest of the intersection of Highways VA-602 and VA-311; 14050 feet 288 degrees northwest of the intersection of Highways VA-311 and VA-159
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA005—Alleghany
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA005—Alleghany County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37080-F2—Alleghany, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 67 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, unspecified at 64cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    18—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

    40

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    939

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    0

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 21 centimeters (1.2 to 8.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) channery silt loam; 15 percent sand; 65 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01461, VPI01462
    Bw—21 to 67 centimeters (8.3 to 26.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; 19 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 45 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01463, VPI01461
    R—67 to 77 centimeters (26.4 to 30.3 inches); ; fragments.