IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA097933
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA097933
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988IA097933
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-000-7
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74644
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Mississippi River Floodplain; NO LOCATION- See site text notes
  • 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-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
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/1984
  • 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 - 9/20/1984
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed
  • Field Measured Properties: 42 inches of depth to groundwater


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/20/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • 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

    ACSA2

    Acer saccharinum

    silver maple

    tree

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

    aquic conditions

    ochric epipedon

    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

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    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
    A—0 to 36 centimeters (0.0 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 27 percent clay; friable; common fine roots; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # ISU03364, ISU03365. continuous - phpvsfiid 1737115; continuous - phpvsfiid 1737115
    C1—36 to 71 centimeters (14.2 to 28.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; friable; common very fine roots; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fine distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # ISU03366
    C2—71 to 122 centimeters (28.0 to 48.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; friable; few very fine roots; fine distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # ISU03367, ISU03368, ISU03369