IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976IA043002
  • User Pedon ID: S1976IA043002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X22-930-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75063
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 42.7857547
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5791115
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 92N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 10 feet north and 420 feet east of the southwest corner NE1/4NW1/4
  • 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-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1976
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/1976
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: alluvium
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/1976 (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

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

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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

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    ELKADER 6 SSW, IA US

    NOAA
    0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # ISU02946
    18 to 51 centimeters (7.1 to 20.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # ISU02947
    51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # ISU02948
    74 to 117 centimeters (29.1 to 46.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # ISU02949
    117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # ISU02950