IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961IA065106
  • User Pedon ID: S1961IA065106
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X65162-19
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74858
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 42.9649065
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8278876
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 94N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 315 feet north and 924 feet west of southeast corner SE1/4
  • 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: Kenneth Kittleson
  • 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: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1961
  • Classifier - Kenneth Kittleson
  • 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 - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1961
  • Classifier - Kenneth Kittleson
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Kenneth Kittleson
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

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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

    13

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    —

    —

    203

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132864

    FAYETTE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # ISU02905
    Bt1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02906
    Bt2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist,; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02907
    Bt3—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many fine pores; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist,; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02908
    Bt4—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; structureless very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic, and weak very fine prismatic, and moderate fine prismatic, and moderate very fine prismatic structure; friable; many fine pores; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, and 5/4 5/4, moist,; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02909
    BC—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); 75 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 25 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) exterior silt loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02910
    C—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 50 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silt loam; massive; friable; many fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU02911