IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Niagara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958NY109001
  • User Pedon ID: S1958NY109001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0254
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32782
  • 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: 42.4591675
  • Std. Longitude: -76.4441681
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Tompkins County, New York. 2/3 mile south of village of Varna, 1/2 mile east of Ithaca town line, 200 yards north of Game Farm Road, 110 yards east of Lehigh Valley Railroad in cultivated field. Aerial photo ARU-3-74.
  • State: New York
  • County: NY109—Tompkins
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY109—Tompkins County, New York

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Niagara
  • PSC - 12 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    ; fragments; slight effervescence.
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01877
    A2g—25 to 30 centimeters (9.8 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01878
    B2tg—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay loam; 3 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) medium and 3 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) medium mottles; strong coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and gray (N 5/), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01879
    C1—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and olive (5Y 4/4) silt loam; weak coarse and very coarse prismatic parts to thick platy structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01880. Laminated silt loam layers, 1/3 to 1/4 inches thick with very thin clay layers with precipitated CaCO3 between silt layers; no roots.
    C2—69 to 127 centimeters (27.2 to 50.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic parts to very thick platy structure; 0.0 roots; gray (N 5/), moist,; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A01881. (N 5/ ) vertical streaks mark boundary of structure.