IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973IA043011
  • User Pedon ID: S1973IA043011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X22-589-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75054
  • 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: 43.0759334
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4723439
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 546 feet south and 780 feet west of the northeast corner SE1/4NE1/4
  • 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 Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • 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 - Otter
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/1973
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Otter
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/1973
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: alluvium
  • 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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/11/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    aquic conditions

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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

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    00132603

    ELKADER 6 SSW, IA US

    NOAA

    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) stratified stratified silt loam; cloddy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00550. several lighter colored strata ff soft reddish oxides
    A—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) and reddish brown (5YR 4/3) stratified stratified silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00551. many 5YR3/3 and 4/3 strata
    Ab1—46 to 89 centimeters (18.1 to 35.0 inches); black (N 2/), silt loam; weak fine granular parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00552. few fine soft red oxides
    Ab2—89 to 124 centimeters (35.0 to 48.8 inches); black (5Y 2/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU00553, ISU00554. common fine hard red oxides