IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frankville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA097022
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA097022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-903-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74738
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 42.0630287
  • Std. Longitude: -90.7620296
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet north and 120 feet east of the southwest corner
  • 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: Fine-silty, 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 - Frankville
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/1986
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frankville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/1986
  • 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: loess over residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone) at 79cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/30/1986 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

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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

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00130608

    BELLEVUE L AND D 12, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03053. mixed with some streaks and pockets of 10YR4/4; neutral
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate 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 # ISU03054. medium acid
    Bt2—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03055. medium acid
    2Bt3—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; few very fine roots; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU03056. neutral
    2R—79 to 80 centimeters (31.1 to 31.5 inches); bedrock; fragments. hard, fractured dolomitic limestone bedrock