IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ridgebury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1996NH013002
  • User Pedon ID: S1996NH013002
  • Transect:
  • Transect Stop Number - 89
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0233
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68708
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 43.1744250
  • Std. Longitude: -71.6041611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • 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 HampshireNH609—Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43071-B5—Concord, New Hampshire

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, acid, mesic, shallow Aeric Humaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ridgebury
  • PSC - 26 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/2014
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ridgebury
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, nonacid Epiaquents
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1996
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy lodgment till
  • Landscape: drumlin field
  • Landform: swale on saddle
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/27/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop trees
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    50 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    densic contact

    0—20

    20—50

    20—50

    50—

    —20—

    —30—

    —30—

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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

    1

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    133.6

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    142

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 97P01575
    Ap1—1 to 8 centimeters (0.4 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; 9 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 97P01576
    Ap2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 18 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments. Lab sample # 97P01577
    Bg—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) sandy loam; massive; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 2 percent fine prominent light reddish gray (2.5YR 7/1), moist, iron depletions and 10 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments. Redox: 2f 10YR 5/6.
    Bw—33 to 50 centimeters (13.0 to 19.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy loam; massive; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments.
    Cd—50 centimeters (19.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments.