IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Richwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965IA065006
  • User Pedon ID: S1965IA065006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X657-1-0
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74898
  • 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: 43.0106464
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7410904
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4SW1/4SW1/4
  • Location Description: in a farmstead near a sidevalley drainageway on a low bench
  • 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: R. Dideriksen, Tom Fenton
  • 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 - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1965
  • Classifier - R.Dideriksen
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Richwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1965
  • Classifier - R.Dideriksen
  • 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: silty alluvium
  • Landform: sidevalley drainageway, low 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: 8/11/2014 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: R Dideriksen
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    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 weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02768
    A—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed, dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02769
    BA—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; gray (10YR 6/1), dry,; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02770. patchy - phpvsfiid 1325433; patchy - phpvsfiid 1325433
    Bt1—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish olive (10Y 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry,; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02771. patchy - phpvsfiid 1325434; patchy - phpvsfiid 1325434
    Bt2—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky, and structureless medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, and 7/2 7/2, dry,; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02772. patchy - phpvsfiid 1325435; continuous - phpvsfiid 1325436; patchy - phpvsfiid 1325435; continuous - phpvsfiid 1325436
    BC—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed silt loam; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak fine prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint light gray (10YR 7/2), dry,; fine dark olive gray (5Y 3/2), moist, and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist,; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02773. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325437; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325437
    C1—130 to 180 centimeters (51.2 to 70.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; olive gray (5Y 5/2) medium prominent and olive gray (5Y 5/2) coarse prominent and brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium prominent and brown (7.5YR 4/4) coarse prominent mottles; massive; friable; fine dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist,; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02774
    C2—180 to 229 centimeters (70.9 to 90.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU02775