IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Festina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973IA043018
  • User Pedon ID: S1973IA043018
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1973IA043018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X22-978-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75066
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.9378924
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5887965
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 94N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 1210 feet north and 430 feet west of the southeast corner
  • 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 Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Festina
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/1973
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Festina
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/1973
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - crop row on bed or ridge
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • 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: 9/10/1973 (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 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Extra Moisture Source: none
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

    grass/grasslike

    100

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

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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

    2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132603

    ELKADER 6 SSW, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00574
    E—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00575
    BE—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; white (10YR 8/1), dry, silt coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00576. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117565; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117565
    Bt1—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; white (10YR 8/1), dry, silt coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00577. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117566; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117566
    Bt2—61 to 94 centimeters (24.0 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; white (10YR 8/1), dry, silt coats and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00578. continuous - phpvsfiid 1117567; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117568; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117567; continuous - phpvsfiid 1117568
    Bt3—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00579. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117569; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117569
    C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam, loamy sand; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00580. has common lenses of 7.5YR4/4 loamy sand