IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962IA065051
  • User Pedon ID: S1962IA065051
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Rockton_EVAL_Project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X65214N7-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74866
  • 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: 42.9771130
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6075901
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 94N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 320 feet south and 420 feet west (of road fence) of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: about 120 feet westward from lone oak tree on West edge of timbered area toward another lone tree in waterway
  • 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-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockton
  • PSC - 53 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/2014
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 53 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/2014
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: drift
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/6/2014 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

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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

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132864

    FAYETTE, IA US

    NOAA
    A1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and black (10YR 2/1) broken face and black (10YR 2/1) rubbed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear boundary.
    A2—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and black (10YR 2/1) exterior and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky, and granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear boundary.
    AB—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and 70 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) rubbed, dry; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, unspecified; abrupt boundary.
    Bt1—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); 45 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 25 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 20 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and dark brown (10YR 3/3) reduced sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # ISU02755
    Bt2—71 to 76 centimeters (28.0 to 29.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) rubbed coarse gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films; chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt boundary.
    Cr—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); 40 percent greenish gray (5G 6/1) and 40 percent light greenish gray (5G 7/1) and 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and pale olive (5Y 6/4) broken face and pale olive (5Y 6/4) rubbed silt loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; shale, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method.