IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ryker
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IN133034
  • User Pedon ID: 1976IN133034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - PM7634
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22826
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 39.4781833
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7096111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet Sand 950 feet west of the northeast CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN133—Putnam

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Stephenson and Neyhouse
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 34
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ryker
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ryker
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Wisconsin Illinois formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PM76341
    B21T—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PM76342
    B22T—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PM76343
    B23T—61 to 130 centimeters (24.0 to 51.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PM76344
    B24T—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PM76345
    B25T—152 to 193 centimeters (59.8 to 76.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PM76346
    B26T—193 to 211 centimeters (76.0 to 83.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 35 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5. Lab sample # PM76347