IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969IA043004
  • User Pedon ID: S1969IA043004
  • 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 # - X22-163-5
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75042
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 42.6902068
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2012002
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 91N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 345 feet north and 150 feet east of the southwest corner SW1/4SE1/4
  • 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
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 30 to 80 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 - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/1969
  • 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
  • Landscape: upland
  • 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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Maurice Massbach
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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 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

    2

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132603

    ELKADER 6 SSW, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; cloddy parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # ISU00045
    E—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU00046
    EB—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00047. light sicl
    Bt1—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry, coats; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00048, ISU00049. patchy - phpvsfiid 1248786; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248787; patchy - phpvsfiid 1248786; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248787
    Bt2—58 to 97 centimeters (22.8 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry, coats; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00050, ISU00051. med sicl; patchy - phpvsfiid 1248788; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248789; patchy - phpvsfiid 1248788; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248789
    BC1—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry, coats; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00052. light sicl; patchy - phpvsfiid 1248790; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248791; patchy - phpvsfiid 1248790; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248791
    BC2—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 27 percent clay; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) medium mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; gray (10YR 6/1), dry, coats; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00053. med sil; patchy - phpvsfiid 1248792; patchy - phpvsfiid 1248792
    C1—142 to 231 centimeters (55.9 to 90.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00054. mottled; few cleavage faces
    C2—231 to 254 centimeters (90.9 to 100.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and gray (5Y 5/1) silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00055. mottled