IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962IA065038
  • User Pedon ID: S1962IA065038
  • 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 # - X65488-7-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74893
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 43.0238935
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6064062
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 665 feet south and 170 feet west of the northeastern corner of SE1/4SE1/4
  • 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: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: variant
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • 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 - variant
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/10/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • 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
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/10/2013 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    redox concentrations

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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

    7

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    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132864

    FAYETTE, IA US

    NOAA
    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky parts to granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear boundary.
    E—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior and dark gray (10YR 4/1) rubbed and dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky parts to granular, and weak thick platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky parts to granular structure; friable; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02715
    Bt1—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); 10 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) rubbed and olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; weak prismatic, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02716
    Bt2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) rubbed and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face silt loam; weak prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fine masses of oxidized iron and medium masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02717
    Bt3—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) rubbed and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak prismatic, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fine reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02718
    Bt4—84 to 94 centimeters (33.1 to 37.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) rubbed and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face silt loam; weak prismatic, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02719
    Bt5—94 to 104 centimeters (37.0 to 40.9 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) rubbed and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face silt loam; weak prismatic, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear boundary.
    BC—104 to 145 centimeters (40.9 to 57.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and pale olive (5Y 6/3) rubbed and pale olive (5Y 6/3) broken face silt loam; weak prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU02720