IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Yellowriver
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA005016
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA005016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-861F-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75221
  • 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: 43.3429766
  • Std. Longitude: -91.1969127
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 99N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet north and 1080 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
  • 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: Joe Kristoff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic 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 - Yellowriver (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/1988
  • Classifier - Joe Kristoff
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/1988
  • Classifier - Joe Kristoff
  • 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 - Joe Kristoff
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Joe Kristoff
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/7/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Joe Kristoff
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    albic 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

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA

    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; 32 percent sand; moderate medium granular structure; friable; few medium roots and common fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01977. mildly alkaline
    E—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 30 percent sand; weak thin platy, and weak thick platy structure; friable; few medium roots and few fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01978. mildly alkaline
    BE—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 18 percent sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; faint very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01979. mildly alkaline
    Bt1—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 13 percent sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; faint very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01980. mildly alkaline; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105607; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105607
    2Bt2—66 to 102 centimeters (26.0 to 40.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 8 percent sand; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and faint very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01981. neutral; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105608; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105608
    2Bt3—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 6 percent sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; thin dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01982. few iron or manganese oxides; neutral; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105610; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105610
    2C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; 6 percent sand; massive; friable; black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # ISU01983. few iron or manganese oxides; neutral