IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986IA005003
  • User Pedon ID: S1986IA005003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-210-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75179
  • Print Date: 5/7/2025

    • 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: 43.4642237
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5465228
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 2590 feet north and 1200 feet east of the southwest corner
  • 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-D5—Dorchester, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora, Jim Marzke, Pat Abel, JF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic, uncoated Typic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Boone
  • PSC - 15 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/1986
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boone
  • Taxonomic Class - Mesic, uncoated Typic Quartzipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/1986
  • 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: sandy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified at 61cm
  • 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: 9/10/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

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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

    50

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    341

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; many very fine roots and many fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01705. neutral
    A2—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common very fine roots and common fine roots; black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01706. neutral
    Bw1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common very fine roots and common fine roots; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01707. neutral
    Bw2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; few very fine roots and few fine roots; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01708. slightly acid
    C—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; single grain; loose; few very fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU01709. slightly acid
    Cr—61 to 62 centimeters (24.0 to 24.4 inches); bedrock; fragments.