IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA065034
  • User Pedon ID: S1984IA065034
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984IA065034
  • 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 # - 85P0485
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56751
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024
  • 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: 42.9661102
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7699966
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 94N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 840 feet north and 1770 feet west of the southeast corner
  • 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: Herb Wilson
  • 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 - 15 to 65 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 - Downs
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1984
  • Classifier - Herb Wilson
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • 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: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty 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

  • 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: 11/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Herb Wilson
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • 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

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—91

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    315

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    00132864

    FAYETTE, IA US

    NOAA

    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02381; moist when described;
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02382; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313687; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313687
    Bt1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02383; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313688; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313688
    Bt2—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, skeletans on faces of peds; fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02384; moist when described;. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; continuous - phpvsfiid 1313689; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313690; continuous - phpvsfiid 1313689; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313690
    Bt2—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, skeletans on faces of peds; fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02385; moist when described;. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313691; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313692; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313691; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313692
    Bt3—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak prismatic structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, skeletans on faces of peds; fine and medium iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02386; moist when described;. Sampled to 78cm.; few fine and medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313693; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313694; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313693; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313694
    BC—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak prismatic structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, skeletans on faces of peds; medium iron-manganese masses and 11 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog.; moist when described;. Not sampled. Roots extend to 104cm and moist to 100cm.; common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313696; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313696
    C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; medium iron-manganese masses and 11 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog.; dry when described;. Not sampled.; common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine faint 10YR56 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR52 mottles