IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ryder
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962PA011009
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA011009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 72
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA011009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45226
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.3958333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2188889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Beidler farm, 6th strip 192 ft from Rt 06025 NE of T498, Marion Twp., Berks Co.,
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA011—Berks
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA011—Berks County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-D2—Strausstown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey, J. Noll, F. Ackerman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ryder
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ryder
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.49 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.07 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.37 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.18 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.88 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/1962 ()
  • 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

    DAGL

    MESA

    Dactylis glomerata

    Medicago sativa

    orchardgrass

    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

    9

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    152

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    180

    1100

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    10.3

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00493
    Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak very fine blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00494. continuous - phpvsfiid 531548; continuous - phpvsfiid 531548
    Bt2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels and faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00495
    BC—43 to 53 centimeters (16.9 to 20.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU00496. Films are on larger surfaces.
    C—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior silt loam; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds and prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 20 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # PSU00497. Coats on larger surfaces.
    R—84 to 99 centimeters (33.1 to 39.0 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) interior and dark gray (N 4/0) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU00498