IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Port Byron
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969IA089005
  • User Pedon ID: S1969IA089005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X45-620-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75274
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 43.4766671
  • Std. Longitude: -92.1666608
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet south and 475 feet west of the northeast corner of SW1/4SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA089—Howard
  • 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: IA089—Howard County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Port Byron
  • PSC - 20 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/1965
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Port Byron
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/1965
  • 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
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/18/1965 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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 concentrations

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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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    0

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00131954

    CRESCO 1 NE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00106. neutral
    A1—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00107. neutral
    A2—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00108. heavy silt loam; neutral; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117406; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117406
    AB—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00109. heavy silt loam; neutral; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117407; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117407
    Bt1—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on all faces of peds and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00110, ISU00111. heavy silt loam; strongly acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117408; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117409; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117408; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117409
    Bt2—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on all faces of peds and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00112. medium acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117411; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117412; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117411; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117412
    BC—99 to 119 centimeters (39.0 to 46.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak fine prismatic structure; friable; silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00113. medium acid
    C1—119 to 140 centimeters (46.9 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00114. few 7.5yr 5/8 stains; medium acid
    C2—140 to 183 centimeters (55.1 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments. common, fine, faint, 10YR6/3 mottles in upper 6; few 7.5YR5/8 stains; slightly acid