IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979IA061006
  • User Pedon ID: S1979IA061006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1979IA061006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61930N
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74846
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 42.4311055
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0813801
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1760 feet north and 2280 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA061—Dubuque
  • 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: IA061—Dubuque County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/1979
  • 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 - 7/20/1979
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: stratified silty alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • 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: 7/20/1979 (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

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    lamellae

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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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

    3

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    225

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; friable; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02531. slightly acid
    C1—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) stratified stratified silt loam; massive parts to weak medium platy; friable; brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02532. few dark gray (10YR 4/1) lamellae; few fine very dark gray (10YA 3/1) and brown (7.5YA 4/2) concretions (iron and manganesE~ oxide); slightly acid
    C2—38 to 71 centimeters (15.0 to 28.0 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) stratified stratified silt loam; brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine distinct and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and dark reddish gray (2.5YR 4/1) fine faint mottles; massive parts to weak medium platy, and massive parts to weak thick platy; friable; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02533. few fine dark reddish brown (5YA 3/3) concretions (manganese oxide); slightly acid
    Ab1—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) mucky silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02534. few very fine brown (7.5YA 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YA 5/6) concretions (iron oxide); sapric material with grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) coatings at 38 to 40 inches; neutral
    Ab2—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); black (N 2/0) silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02535. neutral
    Ab3—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU02536. neutral