IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elvira
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972IA045008
  • User Pedon ID: S1972IA045008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1972IA045008
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Elvira_pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X23-962-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75126
  • Print Date: 5/18/2024

    • 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: 41.8943988
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3675821
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 82N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 2230 feet north and 1580 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: 320 feet (20 posts) south and 400 feet west of the northeast corner; W1/2NE1/4SW1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA045—Clinton
  • 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: IA045—Clinton County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wayne Frederick, Larry Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elvira (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/1972
  • Classifier - Wayne Frederick
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brophy (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/1972
  • Classifier - Wayne Frederick
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain, depression
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): A scan of the original data (i.e. field sheet(s), edits, manuscripts, notes, and other associated data) is available in the scans archive.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Wayne D Frederick
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AVENA

    TRPR2

    Avena

    Trifolium pratense

    oat

    red clover

    grass/grasslike

    forb

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    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

    0

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00131635

    CLINTON NUMBER 1, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 30 percent clay; cloddy parts to moderate medium angular blocky, and cloddy parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00381
    A—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); black (N 2/0) silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 32 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00382. common 5YR3/3 stains on holes and root channels comm fine soft 2.5yr3/6 iron oxides
    Bg1—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; 7 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and prismatic structure; firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00383. comm fine soft 2.5yr3/6iron oxides comm 5YR4/3 stains may be many
    Bg2—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 29 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate fine single grain; firm; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # ISU00384. many fine soft 5YR4/4 and 2.5YR3/6 oxides
    Bg3—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 29 percent clay; massive, and granular; hard, friable, moderately sticky; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # ISU00385
    BC—84 to 99 centimeters (33.1 to 39.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) and yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 12 percent sand; 31 percent clay; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) distinct mottles; massive; firm; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # ISU00386. mottled; vertical cleavage- 4" Krotovina; a few 5G5/1 streaks
    C1—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 29 percent clay; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine distinct and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00387
    2C2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 15 percent clay; massive; very friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00388