IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959IA043002
  • User Pedon ID: S1959IA043002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959IA043002
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 Proj
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X22-163-4
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75041
  • 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: 42.9322335
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2260074
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 94N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: Nw1/4NW1/4
  • Location Description: 140 feet west of north-south road along trail into timber
  • 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: Maurice Massbach, John Highland
  • 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: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 43 to 93 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 - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/1959
  • Classifier - Maurice Massbach
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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
  • Landform: ridge
  • 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

  • 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: 7/9/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Maurice Massbach
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    ACER

    Acer

    maple

    tree

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    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

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    0

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132603

    ELKADER 6 SSW, IA US

    NOAA
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # ISU00009
    E1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU00010. some 3/1 mixing
    E2—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00011
    EB—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00012. heavy sil
    Bt1—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00013
    Bt2—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00014, ISU00015. mod sicl
    BC1—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) mottles; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00016, ISU00017
    BC2—127 to 198 centimeters (50.0 to 78.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) mottles; friable; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # ISU00018, ISU00019
    C—198 to 244 centimeters (78.0 to 96.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) sandy loam; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) mottles; massive; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00020