IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Berks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-CT-BA-22
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-WV075-161
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0161
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51104
  • 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: 38.1932222
  • Std. Longitude: -79.8986944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Minnehaha Springs VA- WV quadrangle; (Pocahontas County, VA); 28100 feet 250 degrees southwest of the intersection of Highways VA-600 and VA-603; 26100 feet 66 degrees northeast of the intersection of Highways WV-39 and WV-28
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: West Virginia
  • County: WV075—Pocahontas
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WV075—Pocahontas County, West Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38079-B8—Minnehaha Springs, West Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, siliceous, mesic Typic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 28 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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

    3—81

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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

    35

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    1055

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    280

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) channery silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw1—6 to 41 centimeters (2.4 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) very channery silt loam; 21 percent sand; 64 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01611
    Bw2—41 to 84 centimeters (16.1 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) extremely channery silt loam; 21 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # VPI01612