IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Exette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973IA043004
  • User Pedon ID: S1973IA043004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1973IA043004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X22-763E2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75057
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 42.8390738
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5656482
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 507 feet south and 444 feet east of the southwest corner NW1/4NW1/4
  • Location Description: highly ribbed interfluves in highly dissected landscape
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA043—Clayton
  • 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: IA043—Clayton County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • 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 - Exette
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1973
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Exette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Dystric Eutrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1973
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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: 8/7/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    MEDIC

    Medicago

    alfalfa

    forb

    100

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

    ochric 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

    16

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    —

    —

    225

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132603

    ELKADER 6 SSW, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 24 percent silt; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00507. 10YR4/3 mixings
    AB—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 6 percent sand; 26 percent silt; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00508
    Bt—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 4 percent sand; 25 percent silt; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00509
    BC—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 23 percent silt; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00510. mottled
    C1—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 20 percent silt; massive; friable; fine distinct brown (7.5YR 5/3), moist, oxide masses; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00511
    C2—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 18 percent silt; brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00512. 7.5yr5/6 pipestems
    C3—119 to 157 centimeters (46.9 to 61.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; 5 percent sand; 13 percent silt; massive; friable; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, oxide masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU00513. iron segregations 7.5YR5/6