IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Churchtown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA005006
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA005006
  • User Site Association ID: Loamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-862E2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75223
  • 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: 43.3375000
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5191667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 98N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet south and 2000 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-C5—Hanover, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Brantmeier, Joe Kristoff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Churchtown (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1988
  • Classifier - Tom Brantmeier
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/16/1988
  • Classifier - Tom Brantmeier
  • 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: slope alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Tom Brantmeier
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Tom Brantmeier

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/16/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Tom Brantmeier
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

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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

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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 grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; 52 percent sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01927. neutral
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 22 percent sand; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; thin dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and thin light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01928. neutral; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105488; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105489; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105488; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105489
    Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and thin light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01929. neutral; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105490; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105491; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105490; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105491
    Bt3—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 14 percent sand; 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 thin light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01930. neutral; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105494; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105492; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105493; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105494; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105492; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105493
    2Bt4—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 10 percent sand; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and thin light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01931. neutral; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105497; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105495; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105496; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105497; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105495; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105496
    2Bt5—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 10 percent sand; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and thin light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # ISU01932. neutral; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105499; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105498; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105500; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105499; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105498; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105500