IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Allamakee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA005010
  • User Pedon ID: S1985IA005010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-838D2-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75212
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 43.1651418
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2429701
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 99N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet north and 1400 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Allamakee County, Iowa; about 5 miles west and 1 mile north of Lansing
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43091-C3—Church, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty over clayey, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Allamakee (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2003
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Allamakee (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/1985
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • 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 clayey loess over residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Bob Vobora
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Bob Vobora

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    lithologic discontinuity

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    —

    0—20

    25—122

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 5 percent brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03424
    BE—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak coarse platy, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.3 very fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03425
    Bt1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.3 very fine roots throughout; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03426. continuous - phpvsfiid 584885; continuous - phpvsfiid 584885
    Bt2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.3 very fine roots throughout; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03427. continuous - phpvsfiid 584886; continuous - phpvsfiid 584886
    2Bt3—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.3 very fine roots throughout; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU03428. continuous - phpvsfiid 584887; continuous - phpvsfiid 584887
    2Bt4—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.3 very fine roots throughout; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU03429. continuous - phpvsfiid 584888; continuous - phpvsfiid 584888
    2Bt5—81 to 123 centimeters (31.9 to 48.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) cobbly clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume subrounded 25-?-203 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume subrounded 25-?-203 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU03430. continuous - phpvsfiid 584890; continuous - phpvsfiid 584890
    3BC—123 to 152 centimeters (48.4 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) stratified stratified sandy loam to loam to sandy clay loam to sandy clay to clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume subrounded 25-?-152 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU03431