IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Massbach
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IA005008
  • User Pedon ID: S1987IA005008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-712B-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75203
  • 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: 43.2328090
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3680374
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 97N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet north and 600 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
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA005—Allamakee County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora, Jim Marzke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Massbach
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/1987
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Schapville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/1987
  • 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: Peoria silty loess over residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: shale, unspecified at 104cm
  • 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: 9/9/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    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

    2

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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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots and few fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01810. slightly acid
    BE—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak medium platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium platy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01811. medium acid
    Bt1—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01812. strongly acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105547; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105547
    Bt2—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01813. strongly acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105548; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105548
    Bt3—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU01814. 10YR2/2 accumulations; medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105549; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105549
    2BC—89 to 104 centimeters (35.0 to 40.9 inches); greenish gray (5GY 6/1) bedrock; fine distinct mottles; massive; very firm; pale olive (5Y 6/3) carbonate laminae; 100 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. greenish gray (5GY 6/1) shale; few fine distinct olive yellow mottles; massive; very firm; many pale olive (5Y 6/3) carbonate layers; neutral.
    2Cr—104 to 105 centimeters (40.9 to 41.3 inches); bedrock; fragments.