IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA105009
  • User Pedon ID: S1984IA105009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984IA105009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X53-480-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74794
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.1205569
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0662741
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 240 feet south and 1920 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: 40 paces south of end rows in corn, from open spot in corn.
  • 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-loamy, mixed, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orwood
  • Classificaton Date - 9/5/1984
  • Classifier - Olin
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/5/1984
  • Classifier - Orwood
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • 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: 9/5/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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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

    6

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; few fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01439
    BE—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01440
    Bt1—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, coats and clay films on all faces of peds and clay films on surfaces along root channels and silt coats; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01441. continuous - phpvsfiid 1268454; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268452; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268453; continuous - phpvsfiid 1268454; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268452; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268453
    Bt2—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; 40 percent sand; 21 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films and sand coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01442. medium and fine sand; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268455; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268456; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268455; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268456
    Bt3—79 to 89 centimeters (31.1 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 45 percent sand; 21 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, coats and clay films and sand coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01443. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268458; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268459; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268458; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268459
    Bt4—89 to 104 centimeters (35.0 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed silt loam; 40 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films and sand coats; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01444. high in sand; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268460; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268461; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268460; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268461
    BC—104 to 137 centimeters (40.9 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silt loam; 40 percent sand; 16 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01445. high in sand; 40% sand in sand lenses
    C—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct and brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; coats; fragments. Lab sample # ISU01446. few darker coatings; very fine sand