IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA005017
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA005017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988IA005017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-430-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75191
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 43.2989547
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3204671
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 98N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet north and 2350 feet east of the southwest 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aeric Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/1988
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ackmore
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aeric Fluvaquents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/1988
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aeric
  • 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 - oats
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • 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: 9/20/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    AVENA

    Avena

    oat

    grass/grasslike

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

    ochric epipedon

    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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    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01984. mildly alkaline
    C—20 to 71 centimeters (7.9 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) stratified stratified silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine prominent and dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) fine prominent mottles; massive; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01985. massive with horizontal cleavage resulting from stratification; mildly alkaline
    2Ab1—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); black (N 2/0) loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01986. neutral
    2Ab2—89 to 124 centimeters (35.0 to 48.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01987. neutral
    2Ab3—124 to 137 centimeters (48.8 to 53.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01988. neutral
    2Bg—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine prominent mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU01989. neutral