IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shullsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IA005010
  • User Pedon ID: S1987IA005010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-206B-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75178
  • 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: 43.3403309
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5184591
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 98N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet south and 2300 feet east of the northwest 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, 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 #: 69
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shullsburg
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/1987
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shullsburg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/1987
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Bedrock: shale, unspecified at 81cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/10/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

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

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    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

    4

    158

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA

    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01822
    A—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01823
    Bg1—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01824. few fine black oxides; continuous - phpvsfiid 1181171; continuous - phpvsfiid 1181171
    Bg2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01825. few fine black oxides; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181172; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181172
    Bg3—64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01826. few fine black oxides; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181173; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181173
    BCg—74 to 81 centimeters (29.1 to 31.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; carbonate concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU01827. 10YR3/1 and 2/1 clay accumulation at shale contact around hard lime concretion; common fine black oxides
    2Cr—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); greenish gray (5G 6/1) and greenish gray (5GY 6/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay, bedrock; 70 percent clay; massive; very firm; carbonate concretions at top of horizon; fragments. hard limey concretion at loess contact, mottled matrix, shale bedrock