IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Eitzen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IA005011
  • User Pedon ID: S1987IA005011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987IA005011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-85-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75218
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 43.2255556
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3916667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 97N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet south and 540 feet west of the northeast 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43091-B4—Rossville, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Mollic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Eitzen
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/1987
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Eitzen
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Mollic Udifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/1987
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Bob Vobora
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Bob Vobora

    • 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: 9/10/1987 (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

    ochric epipedon

    —

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01828. neutral
    C—23 to 76 centimeters (9.1 to 29.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) stratified stratified silt loam; massive; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01829. massive with horizontal cleavage resulting from stratification; neutral
    Ab1—76 to 94 centimeters (29.9 to 37.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01830. neutral
    Ab2—94 to 119 centimeters (37.0 to 46.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01831. neutral
    Ab3—119 to 135 centimeters (46.9 to 53.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01832. few streaks and pockets of 10YR4/3; neutral
    Bb—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # ISU01833. neutral