IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Richwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975IA043009
  • User Pedon ID: S1975IA043009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X22-977-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75065
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 42.8058666
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5575663
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 92N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 364 feet north and 2518 feet east of the southwest 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 Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Richwood
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/15/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • 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
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/13/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

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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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00655
    A—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00656
    AB—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00657
    Bt1—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00658
    Bt2—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00659. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117613; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117613
    BC—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00660. few dark concretions (iron and manganese oxide); medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117614; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1117614
    C1—114 to 132 centimeters (44.9 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; massive; friable; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00661. few dark concretions (manganese oxide); medium acid
    2C2—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sandy loam; single grain; loose; fragments.