IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rowley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IA005007
  • User Pedon ID: S1987IA005007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987IA005007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-826-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75207
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 43.4384287
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4521057
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1480 feet south and 220 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: 80 feet south and 220 feet west of NE corner of field
  • 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, Joe Kristoff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Pedon #: 63
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rowley
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/1987
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rowley
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/1987
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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 - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landform: bench
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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: 9/3/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    MEDIC

    Medicago

    alfalfa

    forb

    100

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

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    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

    1

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01803
    A—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01804. with 10YR4/2and2/1 mixings
    Bg1—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01805
    Bg2—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01806. few black oxides; few 10YR clay filled pores; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181174; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181174
    Bg3—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01807. mottled matrix; few black oxides
    C1—114 to 142 centimeters (44.9 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; massive; friable; few very fine roots; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, silt coats and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01808. mottled matrix; common fine black oxides, massive with horizontal cleavage planes, 10YR3/1 clay coats on cleavage planes, 10YR3/1 clay in root channels
    C2—142 to 173 centimeters (55.9 to 68.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 25 percent clay; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; few very fine roots; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01809. common fine black oxides