IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ricker
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993NY031010
  • User Pedon ID: S1993NY031010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0302
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66480
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 44.0936127
  • Std. Longitude: -73.9791641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Keene, southeast facing slide areas of Cliff Mountain, 1200 feet due north of a point on Upper Twin Brook, that is 1.4 miles from junction of Upper and Lower Twin Brooks, 200 feet up slide face.
  • State: New York
  • County: NY031—Essex
  • MLRA: 143—Northeastern Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NY031—Essex County, New York

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gerald Smith and Ed Stein
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ricker
  • Taxonomic Class - Dysic Lithic Borofolists
  • Classificaton Date - 10/14/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/14/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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

    80

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    914

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    1397

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    0

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    Oe—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) broken face Error; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01875
    Oa—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); black (N 2/0) broken face Error; weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01876
    Bh—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1) loamy sand; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P01877
    R—28 centimeters (11.0 inches); fragments.