IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rikers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1995NY085007
  • User Pedon ID: S1995NY085007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0298
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68376
  • 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: 40.5917361
  • Std. Longitude: -74.1406917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: RiB—Rikers artifactual coarse sand, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: New York
  • County: NY085—Richmond
  • MLRA: 149B—Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-TOL—Tolland, Connecticut
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY085—Richmond County, New York
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40074-E2—Arthur Kill, New York

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Combustic, mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rikers (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rikers
  • Classificaton Date - 6/20/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coal ash human-transported material
  • Landscape: upland
  • Anthropogenic Feature: coal ash spoil pile
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4-62
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • 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

    5

    30

    15.2

    19

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    225

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    ^Au—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) rubbed and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed very gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 0.5 pores; fragments; 26 percent by volume equidimensional subangular cohesive persistent nonpenetrable 2-11-19 millimeter noxious artifacts of coal combustion byproducts; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P02372
    ^Cu1—8 to 43 centimeters (3.1 to 16.9 inches); black (N 2/), rubbed and very dark gray (N 3/), rubbed gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 0.5 pores; fragments; 24 percent by volume equidimensional subangular cohesive persistent nonpenetrable 2-11-19 millimeter noxious artifacts of coal combustion byproducts; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P02373
    ^Cu2—43 to 81 centimeters (16.9 to 31.9 inches); black (N 2/), rubbed gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 pores; fragments; 35 percent by volume equidimensional subangular cohesive persistent nonpenetrable 2-11-19 millimeter noxious artifacts of coal combustion byproducts; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 96P02374
    ^Cu3—81 to 203 centimeters (31.9 to 79.9 inches); very dark gray (N 3/), rubbed gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 0.5 pores; fragments; 33 percent by volume equidimensional subangular cohesive persistent nonpenetrable 2-11-19 millimeter noxious artifacts of coal combustion byproducts; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 96P02375