IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ryker
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002IN079-002
  • User Pedon ID: S2002in079-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0463
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15362
  • 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: 39.0424995
  • Std. Longitude: -85.5377808
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 N
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN079—Jennings
  • MLRA: 114A—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain, Eastern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN079—Jennings County, Indiana
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39085-A5—Butlerville, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dena Marshall & Byron Nagel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ryker
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ryker
  • Classificaton Date - 11/14/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess over weathered till over clayey residuum
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, cherty at 241cm
  • Geology: Loess Over Weathered Glacial Till Over Limestone Residuum formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/14/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 25
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    241 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—241

    241—250

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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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silt loam; moderate thick platy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N02138; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 51 centimeters (5.9 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on surfaces along pores and 65 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine prominent spherical iron-manganese concretions throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02139, 03N02140; observed in pit, small
    2Bt2—51 to 168 centimeters (20.1 to 66.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, skeletans over cutans on vertical faces of peds and 65 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, and dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent spherical iron-manganese concretions throughout and 15 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings between peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-7-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N02142, 03N02143, 03N02144, 03N02141; observed in pit, small
    3Bt3—168 to 241 centimeters (66.1 to 94.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 65 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings between peds; 4 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-7-20 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N02145; observed in pit, small
    R—241 centimeters (94.9 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small