IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986IA005041
  • User Pedon ID: S1986IA005041
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 ProjLoamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0072
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59368
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024
  • 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: 43.3436127
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4308319
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 99N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet north and 200 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
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 41
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • PSC - 57 to 107 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2022
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 57 to 107 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1986
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: mixed loess
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    argillic horizon

    mollic epipedon

    0—0

    0—0

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    20

    328

    90

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA

    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 2.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00407. 1% coarse fragments 3-8 cm diameter limestone and sandstone.; many organic coats surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common fine roots throughout; few medium roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 1917291; continuous - phpvsfiid 1917291
    AE1—13 to 34 centimeters (5.1 to 13.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00408. many organic coats surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 1917292; continuous - phpvsfiid 1917292
    AE2—34 to 57 centimeters (13.4 to 22.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00409. 1% coarse fragments 3-8 cm diameter limestone and sandstone.; many organic coats surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917289; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917289
    Bt1—57 to 92 centimeters (22.4 to 36.2 inches); 95 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and 5 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00410. few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917290; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917290
    Bt2—92 to 127 centimeters (36.2 to 50.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00411. common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; few medium distinct 10YR62 mottles; few fine prominent 7.5YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917293; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917293
    Bt3—127 to 140 centimeters (50.0 to 55.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on all faces of peds and 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 87P00412. common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; common fine distinct 2.5Y62 mottles; common fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917287; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917288; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917287; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917288