IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006IA065006
  • User Pedon ID: S2006IA065006
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 ProjLoamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0101
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18755
  • 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: 42.8959007
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7283173
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 1
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA065—Fayette
  • 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: IA065—Fayette County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Leland Camp
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2022
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/2006
  • Classifier - Leland Camp
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • 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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Leland Camp
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    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

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132864

    FAYETTE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00623; observed in pit, small
    BA—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00624; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313716; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313716
    Bt1—38 to 89 centimeters (15.0 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 85 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00625; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313717; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313717
    Bt2—89 to 130 centimeters (35.0 to 51.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 65 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent fine distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00626; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313718; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1313718
    BC1—130 to 165 centimeters (51.2 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent fine distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 15 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00627; observed in pit, small
    BC2—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 4 percent fine distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2) iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions; fragments. Lab sample # 07N00628; observed in pit, small