IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frankville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IA005014
  • User Pedon ID: S1987IA005014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987IA005014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-903-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75225
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 43.2377778
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5230556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 97N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1050 feet south and 1000 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
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA005—Allamakee County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43091-B5—Frankville, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joe Kristoff, Jim Marzke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frankville
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1987
  • Classifier - Joe Kristoff
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frankville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/1987
  • Classifier - Joe Kristoff
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - crop row on bed or ridge
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess over residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 84cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Joe Kristoff
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Joe Kristoff

    • 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: 10/23/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Joe Kristoff
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Extra Moisture Source: none
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

    grass/grasslike

    100

    overstory
    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    —

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

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    —

    —

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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

    12

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    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots and few fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01848. few 10YR4/3 streaks and pockets; medium acid
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and dark greenish gray (10Y 3/1) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01849. few 10Y3/1 mixings; slightly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105533; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105533
    Bt2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01850. strongly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105534; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105534
    Bt3—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01851. strongly acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105535; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105535
    2Bt4—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thick clay films; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU01852. slightly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105536; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105536
    2R—84 to 152 centimeters (33.1 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.