IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IA065003
  • User Pedon ID: S1983IA065003
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 ProjLoamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0410
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54654
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 43.0636101
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7141647
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4NW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA065—Fayette
  • 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: IA065—Fayette County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2022
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth 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
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1983
  • 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: Peoria silty calcareous loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: valley side
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1983 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    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

    11

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    90

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132864

    FAYETTE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02193. 10YR 4/3 mixings.
    BE—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium platy, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02194
    Bt1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02195. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1581939; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1581939
    Bt2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 37 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02196. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores
    Bt3—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02197. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 1581941; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1581942; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1581943; continuous - phpvsfiid 1581941; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1581942; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1581943
    Bt4—89 to 109 centimeters (35.0 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) fine prominent and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 37 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores and 37 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02198. common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few fine prominent 2.5YR46 mottles; few fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles
    Bt5—109 to 122 centimeters (42.9 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint and 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) fine prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Not sampled.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; few fine faint 10YR52 mottles; few fine prominent 2.5YR46 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1581946; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1581946
    BC—122 to 150 centimeters (48.0 to 59.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 1 percent red (2.5YR 4/6) fine prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 37 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Not sampled.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; few fine prominent 2.5YR46 mottles
    C—150 to 178 centimeters (59.1 to 70.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior silt loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; 15 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Few fine faint 2.5y 52 mottles not sampled.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine prominent 5YR58 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; few fine distinct 7.5YR58 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1581948; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1581948