IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ankeny
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA005004
  • User Pedon ID: S1985IA005004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985IA005004
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Ankeny_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-136C-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75161
  • 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: 43.4496298
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3019334
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 135 feet north and 250 feet west of center
  • Location Description: 135 feet north of cedar tree west of field line
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA005—Allamakee
  • 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: IA005—Allamakee County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora, Jim Marzke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ankeny
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/1985
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ankeny
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/1985
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - oats
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy eolian deposits
  • Landform: high bench
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • 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: 9/6/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown 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

    AVENA

    Avena

    oat

    grass/grasslike

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

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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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    256

    —

    247

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loamy fine sand; 80 percent sand; 7 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common very fine roots and few fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01522. <1% gravel on surface
    A1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loamy fine sand; 80 percent sand; 7 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01523
    A2—38 to 43 centimeters (15.0 to 16.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loamy very fine sand; 10 percent sand; 7 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01524
    AB—43 to 89 centimeters (16.9 to 35.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 9 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent by volume unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01525. <1% coarse frags
    Bw—89 to 109 centimeters (35.0 to 42.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; loamy sand; 15 percent sand; 6 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent by volume 30-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01526. 1 coarse frags 1+ inch diameter has no effervescence
    C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) stratified stratified fine sand; 90 percent sand; 5 percent clay; single grain; loose; 1 percent by volume chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01527. <1% coarse frags looks like chert, common 1/4" thick harder strata 10YR3/2 (weakly cemented)