New England Soil Profiles
Raypol (like) Series
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Raypole soils are poorly drained soils formed in silty loess underlain by glacial fluvial deposits. This pedon has about 115 cm of silt loam loess underlain by very gravelly fluvial deposits, at approximately 2 meters is a contact with carboniferous dense till.
Photo: Jim Turenne, Photo Location: Middletown, RI. Latitude:
41.520138° N
Longitude: 71.267377° W