IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elvers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972IA045011
  • User Pedon ID: S1972IA045011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1972IA045011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X23-963-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75127
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 41.9094307
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3749263
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 82N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 2560 feet north and 220 feet west of southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA045—Clinton
  • 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: IA045—Clinton County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wayne Frederick, Larry Johnson, RL Mendenhall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Thapto-Histic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Pedon #: 963
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elvers
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1972
  • Classifier - Wayne Frederick
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elvers
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Thapto-Histic Fluvaquents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/1972
  • Classifier - Wayne Frederick
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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 over organic material
  • Landform: overwashed bog on flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): A scan of the original data (i.e. field sheet(s), edits, manuscripts, notes, and other associated data) is available in the scans archive.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/26/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Wayne D Frederick
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BROMU

    Bromus

    brome

    grass/grasslike

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    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

    0

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    —

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00131635

    CLINTON NUMBER 1, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) stratified stratified silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00405
    C1—18 to 56 centimeters (7.1 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) stratified stratified silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00406, ISU00407
    C2—56 to 89 centimeters (22.0 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) stratified stratified silt loam; weak coarse platy structure; friable; fragments; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # ISU00408, ISU00409. common fine distinct 7.5YR4/4 stains
    2C3—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); black (N 2/0) stratified stratified; weak coarse platy structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00410. sapric organic material