IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lima
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006NY069015
  • User Pedon ID: S06NY069015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 42.8555565
  • Std. Longitude: -77.0991669
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Stanely USGS topo quad NY. Ontario Co. landfill property. South of Co. Rts. 5 and 20, West of truck entrance.
  • Map Unit: Lo—Lima fine sandy loam, 3 to 10 percent slopes
  • State: New York
  • County: NY069—Ontario
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY069—Ontario County, New York
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42077-G1—Stanley, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Antes and Matt Havens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lima
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 5/24/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/24/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    25—56

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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
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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 6 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    B/Et—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); 90 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 13 percent by volume unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 40 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine and medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 11 percent by volume unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.
    C—56 to 183 centimeters (22.0 to 72.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) gravelly fine sandy loam; medium platy structure; firm; 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter. Water content increased at 55 inches and was seeping slowly. The bottom of the pedon was augered to 72 inches. Platy structure described in C horizon does not represent pedogenic development, but is intended to denote plate like divisions.