IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA097924
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA097924
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988IA097924
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-930-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74744
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: NO LOCATION- See site text notes - 245'W of fence and 465N of road
  • Map Unit: 930—Orion silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • 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: Scott Switzer, Kevin Funni
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/8/2014
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Aquic Udifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/8/2014
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - crop row on bed or ridge
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/20/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Scott Switzer
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Extra Moisture Source: none
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

    grass/grasslike

    100

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

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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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

    1

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    180

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00130608

    BELLEVUE L AND D 12, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 15 percent clay; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine faint mottles; weak thick platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03319
    C—18 to 71 centimeters (7.1 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) stratified stratified silt loam; 15 percent clay; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine faint and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak medium platy, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU03320
    Ab1—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fine prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03321
    Ab2—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam; 25 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; iron-manganese concretions; fragments. Lab sample # ISU03322