IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975IA043004
  • User Pedon ID: S1975IA043004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X22-589-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75055
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 43.0070862
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4917974
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 125 feet south and 740 feet west of the northeast 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 Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otter
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/20/1975
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • 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 - 8/20/1975
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • 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
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drainageway
  • 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: 8/20/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    2

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    135

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132603

    ELKADER 6 SSW, IA US

    NOAA
    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00649. few dark concretions (iron and manganese oxide); slightly acid
    A2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00650. few dark concretions (iron oxide); slightly acid
    A3—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); black (N 2/0), very dark gray (N 3/0), dry; silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00651
    A4—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00652
    Cg1—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silt loam; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00653
    Cg2—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silt loam; massive; friable; iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00654. many dark concretions (manganese oxide); neutral