IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Riceville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975IA065077
  • User Pedon ID: S1975IA065077
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X65784
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74912
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 42.8581924
  • Std. Longitude: -92.0809555
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 65 feet South and 150 feet East of the SW corner of NW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Fayette County, Iowa
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA065—Fayette
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA065—Fayette County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Riceville
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2010
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Riceville
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/6/2010
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • 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: 12 to 20 inches of loamy material over very firm glacial till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/6/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02896
    A2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02897
    B1—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); variegated grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02898
    2B21—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02899
    2B22—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and gray (5Y 5/1) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02900
    2Bt23—53 to 91 centimeters (20.9 to 35.8 inches); variegated gray (5Y 5/1) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films on surfaces along root channels and distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02902, ISU02901. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361771; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361771
    2Bt3—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and gray (5YR 5/1) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU02903. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361772; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361772
    2C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); variegated strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and gray (5Y 5/1) clay loam; massive; firm; gray (5Y 6/1) on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5. Lab sample # ISU02904. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361773; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361773