IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rikers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999NY047004
  • User Pedon ID: S1999NY047004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - LIMS
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0034
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11542
  • 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: 40.5938000
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9031972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: RiA—Rikers artifactual coarse sand, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: New York
  • County: NY047—Kings
  • MLRA: 149B—Long Island-Cape Cod Coastal Lowland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY047—Kings County, New York

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Combustic, mixed, mesic Typic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rikers
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2017
  • Classifier - Jacob Isleib
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Anthropogenic Feature: coal ash fill
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/15/2014 (entry creation 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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    ^Au—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); gravelly-artifactual loamy coarse sand; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 9 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-12-20 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume equidimensional subrounded cohesive persistent nonpenetrable 20-50-75 millimeter noxious artifacts of coal combustion byproducts and 4 percent by volume equidimensional subrounded cohesive persistent nonpenetrable 2-4-5 millimeter noxious artifacts of coal combustion byproducts and 6 percent by volume equidimensional subrounded cohesive persistent nonpenetrable 5-12-20 millimeter noxious artifacts of coal combustion byproducts. Lab sample # 00P00073