IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Yellowriver
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA005013
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA005013
  • 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 # - X3-861F-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75220
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 43.2945496
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2545754
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 98N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1160 feet south and 1300 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
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA005—Allamakee County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Pedon #: 100
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Yellowriver
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/18/2018
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/1988
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • 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: alluvium over Peoria silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    ochric epipedon

    argillic 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

    21

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    23

    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; 20 percent clay; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; many very fine roots; nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01961. High sand content
    A—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; common very fine roots; nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01962. High sand content, with few 10YR4/3 mixings
    Bt1—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats; nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method and nonflat 12-?-40 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01963. High sand content, with 10YR3/3 and 3/2 coats and mixings; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181179; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181179
    Bt2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films; nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method and nonflat 12-?-40 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01964. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181180; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181180
    Bt3—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films; nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01965. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181181; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181181
    BC—84 to 132 centimeters (33.1 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01966. sand lens 3/4" thick at top of horizon; continuous - phpvsfiid 1181182; continuous - phpvsfiid 1181182
    C—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 25 percent clay; massive; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method and nonflat 6-?-12 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01967. massive with vertical cleavage planes, clay films on vertical cleavage planes; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181183; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1181183