IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Festina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IA005017
  • User Pedon ID: S1987IA005017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1987IA005017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-793B-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75206
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 43.4438889
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4158333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 570 feet north and 1280 feet west of the southeast 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-D4—Waukon NW, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Festina
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/2017
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bertrand
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/31/1987
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • 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 over sandy and gravelly alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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: 8/31/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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

    argillic horizon

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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

    2.5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); 95 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01866. neutral
    Bt1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium 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 # ISU01867. slightly acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105475; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105475
    Bt2—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 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 # ISU01868. medium acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105476; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105476
    Bt3—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01869. medium acid; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105478; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105477; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105478; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105477
    Bt4—69 to 81 centimeters (27.2 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01870. medium acid; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105480; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105479; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105480; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105479
    Bt5—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01871. medium acid; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105482; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105481; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105482; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105481
    BCt—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium prominent and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # ISU01872. slightly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105483; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105484; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105483; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105484