IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ryder
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962PA011010
  • User Pedon ID: 1962PA011010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 73
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 62PA011010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45237
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.3863889
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2316667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Wise farm, 110 ft NE of black cherry tree on T496, 0.3 mi N of Rt422, 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 #: 10
  • 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: 2.87 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.12 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.73 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.63 in/hr of percolation rate and 11.29 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: low
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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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

    7

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    158

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    225

    1100

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    10.3

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 2 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00499
    Bt—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; clay films on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00500. Coats on large surfaces.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531554; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 531554
    BC—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and platy structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; distinct clay films on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00501
    C1—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine blocky, and weak medium platy structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 80 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00502. Coats are on large surfaces.
    C2—53 to 97 centimeters (20.9 to 38.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) interior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior silt loam; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; faint clay films; 90 percent by volume shale, calcareous fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU00503. Fragments are soft; texture is limestone crushable to silt loam; medium and coarse platiness inherited from bedding of parent material.
    R—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU00504