IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chelsea
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962IA065045
  • User Pedon ID: S1962IA065045
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X6563V-4-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74897
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 43.0309644
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7593538
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: southwest corner of SE1/4NW1/4
  • Location Description: 50 feet feet south of road, timber, cultivated field juncture across the road; 420 feet north and 125 feet east of road fence from southwest corner of SE1/4NW1/4
  • 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: Mixed, mesic Lamellic Udipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chelsea
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/20/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chelsea
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Lamellic Udipsamments
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/20/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • 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: eolian deposits
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/20/2013 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

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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

    4

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    —

    —

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    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132864

    FAYETTE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loamy sand; granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt boundary.
    E—4 to 20 centimeters (1.6 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy sand; weak thin platy parts to single grain; very friable; 3 percent by volume nonflat ?-?-30 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear boundary.
    EB—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; 5 percent by volume nonflat ?-?-30 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear boundary.
    Bt—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); 10YR 2/3 (10YR 2/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed and brown (10YR 4/3) broken face sandy loam; weak prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain, and weak prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; 2 percent by volume nonflat ?-?-30 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02741. original pedon had 10YR1/3 for color, I rounded it to 10YR2/3
    BC1—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (10YR 4/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face loamy sand; weak prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain, and weak prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; 8 percent by volume nonflat ?-?-40 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02742
    BC2—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and single grain; very friable; 21 percent by volume nonflat ?-?-50 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear boundary.
    C—91 to 147 centimeters (35.8 to 57.9 inches); sand; single grain; loose; 28 percent by volume nonflat ?-?-100 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU02743. few sandy loam balls