IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959IA043001
  • User Pedon ID: S1959IA043001
  • 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 # - 40A1404
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35012
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 42.9947205
  • Std. Longitude: -91.1658325
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 760 feet north and 1395 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Mendon Township; approximately 75 feet inside the entrance to Pike's Peak State Park and 25 feet to the right.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA043—Clayton
  • 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: IA043—Clayton County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roger Parsons
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 26 to 76 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 - Fayette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 26 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/1959
  • Classifier - Roger Parsons
  • 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
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Roger Parsons
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    albic horizon

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    —

    —

    —-

    —-

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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

    2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132603

    ELKADER 6 SSW, IA US

    NOAA
    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A10762. Partially decomposed forest litter from white and red oak and shagbark hickory.
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; strong very fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A10763
    E—8 to 26 centimeters (3.1 to 10.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; moderate and strong very thin platy structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A10764
    Bt1—26 to 46 centimeters (10.2 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; prominent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, coats on faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A10765. Vesicular.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917244; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917244
    Bt2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent coats on faces of peds and 75 percent clay films; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A10766. continuous - phpvsfiid 1917241; continuous - phpvsfiid 1917241
    Bt3—64 to 92 centimeters (25.2 to 36.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent black (2.5Y 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A10767. continuous - phpvsfiid 1917240; continuous - phpvsfiid 1917240
    Bt4—92 to 110 centimeters (36.2 to 43.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; prominent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A10768. continuous - phpvsfiid 1917238; continuous - phpvsfiid 1917238
    BC—110 to 125 centimeters (43.3 to 49.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and massive; firm; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A10769. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917239; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917239
    C1—125 to 126 centimeters (49.2 to 49.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; massive; firm; 10 percent prominent clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 40A10770