IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ripon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IA097012
  • User Pedon ID: S1983IA097012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1983IA097012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-216-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74673
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 42.0483704
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3342285
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 85 feet north and 270 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA097—Jackson
  • 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: IA097—Jackson County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42090-A3—Miles, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ripon
  • PSC - 33 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/10/2012
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ripon
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 33 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/1983
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess over residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 69cm
  • 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: 6/29/1983 (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 - hayland
  • 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

    MEDIC

    Medicago

    alfalfa

    forb

    100

    overstory
    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    —

    —

    —
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

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    —

    —

    —

    —-

    —-

    —-

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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

    4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    45

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00130608

    BELLEVUE L AND D 12, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); silt loam; 2 percent sand; 75 percent silt; 23 percent clay; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01163
    A—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); silt loam; 3 percent sand; 73 percent silt; 24 percent clay; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01164
    BA—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); silt loam; 29 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 23 percent clay; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01165
    Bt—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); loam; 34 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 23 percent clay; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01166
    2Bt—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); loam; 51 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 22 percent clay; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01167
    R—69 to 70 centimeters (27.2 to 27.6 inches); bedrock; fragments.