IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chelsea
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA005012
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA005012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988IA005012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-63C-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75197
  • 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: 43.4530480
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4033970
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet south and 2160 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-D3—New Albin, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora, Jim Marzke, Pat Abel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Lamellic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chelsea
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1986
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chelsea
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Lamellic Udipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1986
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • 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: sandy alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • 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: 8/27/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    QUERC

    Quercus

    oak

    tree

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

    ochric epipedon

    lamellae

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

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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

    7

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    —

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; many very fine roots and many fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01954. very strongly acid
    A2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; common very fine roots and common fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01955. very strongly acid
    E1—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; common very fine roots and common fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01956. very strongly acid
    E2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; few very fine roots and few fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01957. very strongly acid
    E3—28 to 89 centimeters (11.0 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01958. strongly acid
    E and Bt—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sand, loamy sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # ISU01959, ISU01960. few lamellae of 7.5YR5/6 loamy sand 1/2 inch to 2 inches thick; strongly acid