IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ankeny
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975IA043001
  • User Pedon ID: S1975IA043001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975IA043001
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Ankeny_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X22-136-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75033
  • 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: 42.8520394
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3930603
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 15 feet south and 33 feet west of the northeast corner NW1/4SE1/4SE1/4
  • Location Description: low bench
  • 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ankeny
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/28/1975
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ankeny
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/28/1975
  • 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: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy alluvium
  • 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: 5/28/1975 (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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic 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

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    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 brown (10YR 2/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00630
    A1—20 to 71 centimeters (7.9 to 28.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00631, ISU00632
    A2—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00633
    Bw—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00634. fls
    C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. some 10YR4/2