IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Festina
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989IA005013
  • User Pedon ID: S1989IA005013
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989IA005013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-978B-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75231
  • 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: 43.4647119
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3420499
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 2240 feet south and 2320 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA005—Allamakee
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA005—Allamakee County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43091-D3—New Albin, 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 - Festina
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/30/1986
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Festina
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/30/1986
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): A scan of the original data (i.e. field sheet(s), edits, manuscripts, notes, and other associated data) is available in the scans archive.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/30/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

    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

    3

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; common fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02050. neutral
    E—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; few fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02051. neutral
    BE—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02052. slightly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105524; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105525; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105524; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105525
    Bt1—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02053. few dark concretions (iron and manganeses oxides); medium acid; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105527; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105526; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105527; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105526
    Bt2—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02054. few dark concretions (iron and manganeses oxides); medium acid; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105529; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105528; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105529; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105528
    BC—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02055. few dark concretions (iron and manganeses oxides); medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105530; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105531; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1105530; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105531
    C1—97 to 142 centimeters (38.2 to 55.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; massive; friable; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02056. mottled; common dark concretions (iron and manganeses oxides); medium acid; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105532; patchy - phpvsfiid 1105532
    C2—142 to 152 centimeters (55.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine prominent and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU02057. slightly acid