IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Seaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA097016
  • User Pedon ID: S1985IA097016
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 Proj
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-663F2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74716
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 42.3122656
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4455057
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 87N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet south and 820 feet west of center
  • Location Description: 45' North of fence line, 85' west of tree line and fenceline
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark LaVan
  • 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: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Seaton
  • 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 - Seaton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/1985
  • Classifier - Mark LaVan
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/11/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MRL
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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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

    19

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    0

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00130608

    BELLEVUE L AND D 12, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; common very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01614. S and P of 10YR5/4
    Bt1—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01615
    Bt2—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and faint very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, silt coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01616
    BC—71 to 112 centimeters (28.0 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 21 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and faint very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, silt coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01617
    C—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 13 percent clay; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01618