IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ridgebury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995NH013005
  • User Pedon ID: S1995NH013005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1995NH013005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0708
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67738
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 43.0871528
  • Std. Longitude: -71.5220889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 530 feet northwest of Quimby Road and S. Bow-Dunbarton Rd intersection
  • Map Unit: 657B—Ridgebury fine sandy loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes, very stony
  • State: New Hampshire
  • County: NH013—Merrimack
  • MLRA: 144A—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Southern Part
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NH013—Merrimack County, New Hampshire
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43071-A5—Goffstown, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: PETER WHITCOMB & KATHY SWAIN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, acid, mesic, shallow Aeric Endoaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 106
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ridgebury
  • PSC - 12 to 42 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - RIDGEBURY
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till derived from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 1.55 percent nonflat subangular 250- to 600-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 53-123
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    ACRU

    ONSE

    PIST

    VACO

    Acer rubrum

    Onoclea sensibilis

    Pinus strobus

    Vaccinium corymbosum

    red maple

    sensitive fern

    eastern white pine

    highbush blueberry

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    42 - 165

    - 123 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    aquic conditions

    albic horizon

    cambic horizon

    densic contact

    0—12

    5—165

    12—27

    27—42

    42—

    —12—

    —160—

    —15—

    —15—

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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

    3

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    237.7

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    330

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    Oi1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P05066; observed in pit, small
    Oi2—2 to 4 centimeters (0.8 to 1.6 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; very friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P05067; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oe—4 to 7 centimeters (1.6 to 2.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face moderately decomposed plant material; very friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P05068; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Oa—7 to 14 centimeters (2.8 to 5.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, gray (10YR 5/1) broken face, dry; stony muck; weak fine granular structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout and 4.0 coarse roots throughout; 1 percent fine prominent light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds and 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P05069; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Eg—14 to 29 centimeters (5.5 to 11.4 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face gravelly silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 medium roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine faint light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds and 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 21 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P05070; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—29 to 44 centimeters (11.4 to 17.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions on faces of peds and 5 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; 17 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P05071; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd1—44 to 58 centimeters (17.3 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face fine sandy loam; structureless massive; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 20 percent medium distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1) iron depletions in matrix and 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cd2—58 to 167 centimeters (22.8 to 65.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face fine sandy loam; very firm; 20 percent medium distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-38-75 millimeter mixed fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. Moderate coarse prisms and moderate medium plates; polygonal streaks in Cd2