IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Richwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962IA065010
  • User Pedon ID: S1962IA065010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X65977
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74919
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 43.0657336
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8359847
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 7
  • Location Description: N1/2 NE1/4 NW1/4 section,in an alfalfa field on a high bench that may be loess-capped
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA065—Fayette
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA065—Fayette County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Richwood
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2014
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Port Byron
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2014
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landform: high bench
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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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

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132864

    FAYETTE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak cloddy, and moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02624
    A12—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02625
    BA—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; gray (10YR 6/1), dry,; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02626. patchy - phpvsfiid 1325377; patchy - phpvsfiid 1325377
    Bt1—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; gray (10YR 6/1), dry,; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02627. patchy - phpvsfiid 1325378; patchy - phpvsfiid 1325378
    Bt2—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 1325379; patchy - phpvsfiid 1325380; continuous - phpvsfiid 1325379; patchy - phpvsfiid 1325380
    BC1—99 to 135 centimeters (39.0 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (10YR 5/3) exterior silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry,; fine faint dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), moist,; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02628. continuous - phpvsfiid 1325381; continuous - phpvsfiid 1325381
    BC2—135 to 188 centimeters (53.1 to 74.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02629
    C1—188 to 231 centimeters (74.0 to 90.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02630
    C2—231 to 254 centimeters (90.9 to 100.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) coarse distinct mottles; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU02631