IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969IA061004
  • User Pedon ID: S1969IA061004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61000-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74817
  • 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: 42.5032437
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8318204
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 89N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4SW1/4
  • Location Description: 650 feet east and 50 feet North of house, 200' NE of field gate north of coutny road to ridge crest. Narrow stable ridge top drops rather sharply to Little Maquoketa River Valley 1/4 mi to N.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA061—Dubuque
  • 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: IA061—Dubuque 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 PC 6.0B
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1969
  • Classifier - Maurice Massbach
  • 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 - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1969
  • 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
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Maurice Massbach
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    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

    13

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; columnar, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # ISU02400
    BA—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; friable; 3/3 3/3, moist, clay films; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02401. patchy - phpvsfiid 1344356; patchy - phpvsfiid 1344356
    Bt1—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films and gray (10YR 6/1), dry, silt coats; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU02402. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1344358; patchy - phpvsfiid 1344357; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1344358; patchy - phpvsfiid 1344357
    Bt2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) mottles; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films and gray (10YR 6/1), dry, silt coats; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU02404, ISU02403. patchy - phpvsfiid 1344359; continuous - phpvsfiid 1344360; patchy - phpvsfiid 1344359; continuous - phpvsfiid 1344360
    BC1—86 to 132 centimeters (33.9 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; clay films on all faces of peds and gray (10YR 6/1), dry, silt coats; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU02405, ISU02406. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1344362; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1344362
    BC2—132 to 168 centimeters (52.0 to 66.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU02407
    C1—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU02408