IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ryker
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IN137006
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IN137006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - RI8006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23449
  • 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: 39.0826194
  • Std. Longitude: -85.4115000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1730 feet west and 2305 feet south of the northwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN137—Ripley

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KMM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ryker
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ryker
  • Classificaton Date - 3/11/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/11/1980 (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
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    AP—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI80061
    B1T—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI80062
    B21T—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI80063
    B22T—56 to 84 centimeters (22.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI80064
    B23T—84 to 135 centimeters (33.1 to 53.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 35 percent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # RI80065
    B24T—135 to 203 centimeters (53.1 to 79.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent red (2.5YR 4/8), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # RI80066