IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whittier
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA097050
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA097050
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-352-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74687
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 42.0767681
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4188351
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet south and 1460 feet west of the northeast 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 over sandy or sandy-skeletal, 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 - Whittier
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Whittier
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2013
  • 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
  • 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: 2/8/2013 (entry creation 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

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    albic horizon

    redox concentrations

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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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; friable; common very fine roots; distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03124. slightly acid
    E—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03125. slightly acid
    EB—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03126. slightly acid
    Bt1—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03127. slightly acid
    Bt2—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03128. medium acid
    2Bt3—89 to 112 centimeters (35.0 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; weak fine prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03129. few prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) iron accumulations; strongly acid
    2C—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loamy sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # ISU03130. strongly acid