IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982IA105015
  • User Pedon ID: S1982IA105015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1982IA105015
  • User Site Association ID: NC-WAV_Fayette_Paha_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X53-163-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74774
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 42.0847047
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2805395
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 260 feet south and 740 feet west of the center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA105—Jones
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA105—Jones County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2013
  • Classifier - Michael England
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/1982
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: divide
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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: 6/15/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    POA

    Poa

    bluegrass

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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

    7

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    90

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 14 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01036
    E—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; 13 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01037
    BE—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01038
    Bt1—36 to 89 centimeters (14.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct clay films on all faces of peds and faint light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01039
    Bt2—89 to 105 centimeters (35.0 to 41.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; distinct clay films on all faces of peds and faint light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01040
    BC—104 to 117 centimeters (40.9 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine prominent and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01041
    C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 26 percent clay; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine prominent mottles; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU01042. massive but has some vertical cleavage; strongly acid