IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970IA045017
  • User Pedon ID: S1970IA045017
  • User Site Association ID: NC-WAV_Fayette_Till_Plain_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X23-163C-6
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75081
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 41.7984555
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8886216
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 81N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet south and 2520 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: SW1/4NW1/4NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA045—Clinton
  • MLRA: 108C—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift, West-Central Part
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA045—Clinton County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2013
  • Classifier - Michael England
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • 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
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • 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: 2/15/2013 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00198
    E—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00199
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine angular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00200. heavy silt loam; medium acid
    Bt2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00201. patchy - phpvsfiid 1117662; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117662
    Bt3—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; strong fine angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; clay films and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00202. patchy - phpvsfiid 1117663; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117664; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117663; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117664
    Bt4—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00203. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117666; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117665; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117666; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117665
    Bt5—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; clay films and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00204, ISU00205. continuous - phpvsfiid 1117667; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117668; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117667; patchy - phpvsfiid 1117668
    Bt6—107 to 142 centimeters (42.1 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00206, ISU00207. light silty clay loam; strongly acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117669; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117669
    C—142 to 183 centimeters (55.9 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00208, ISU00209. few fine dark brown oxide concretions; medium acid