IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Billett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA097003
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA097003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-775-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74720
  • 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: 42.0807317
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3651795
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1340 feet south and 200 feet west of the center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA097—Jackson
  • 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: IA097—Jackson County, Iowa
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic 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 - Billett
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/1986
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Billett
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/1986
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • 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: eolian deposits
  • 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: 3/24/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    lamellae

    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

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    00130608

    BELLEVUE L AND D 12, IA US

    NOAA

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03037. streaks and pockets of 10YR4/4; neutral
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03038. neutral
    Bt2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03039. neutral
    Bt3—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; few very fine roots; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03040. neutral
    BC—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03041. mildly alkaline
    C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy sand, sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # ISU03042. brown (7.5YR 4/4) loamy sand lamellae, 0.5 inch thick, at depths of 47 and 54 inches, and very pale brown (10YR 7/4) sand lamellae, 0.5 inch thick, at depths of 48 and 58 inches; neutral