IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971IA045009
  • User Pedon ID: S1971IA045009
  • User Site Association ID: NC-WAV_Fayette_Till_Plain_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X23-163-17
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75077
  • 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: 41.7979266
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8887101
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 81N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 140 feet south and 120 feet east of the northwest corner 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: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Classificaton Date - 12/12/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/12/2013
  • 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: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/12/2013 (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
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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00308
    E—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00309
    EB—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium angular blocky, and weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00310. patchy - phpvsfiid 1268343; patchy - phpvsfiid 1268343
    Bt1—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, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00311
    Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; fine angular blocky, and medium angular blocky structure; firm; clay films and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00312. patchy - phpvsfiid 1268345; patchy - phpvsfiid 1268346; patchy - phpvsfiid 1268345; patchy - phpvsfiid 1268346
    Bt3—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00313
    Bt4—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00314. continuous - phpvsfiid 1268347; continuous - phpvsfiid 1268347
    Bt5—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 medium subangular blocky structure; light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00315. continuous - phpvsfiid 1268348; continuous - phpvsfiid 1268348
    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; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU00316. few oxides