IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973IA043007
  • User Pedon ID: S1973IA043007
  • 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 # - X22-163C-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75044
  • 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: 42.8703632
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5205393
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 186 feet north and 798 feet west of the southeast corner NW1/4
  • 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: Unknown
  • 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
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 41 to 91 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 - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/1973
  • 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: 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: 8/27/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree 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

    7

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    —

    —

    45

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132603

    ELKADER 6 SSW, IA US

    NOAA
    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silt loam; 2 percent sand; 21 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00520
    E1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 2 percent sand; 20 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; friable; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00521
    E2—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 2 percent sand; 22 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00522. 10YR4/4 mixings
    EB—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 2 percent sand; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, coats and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00523
    Bt1—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 2 percent sand; 26 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films and white (10YR 8/1), dry, silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00524. heavy sil; continuous - phpvsfiid 1248779; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248780; continuous - phpvsfiid 1248779; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248780
    Bt2—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 2 percent sand; 30 percent clay; strong medium angular blocky structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films; fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, oxide masses and black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00525. lt. sicl; few 10yr2/1 MN oxides' 7.5yr4/4 oxides; continuous - phpvsfiid 1248782; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248781; continuous - phpvsfiid 1248782; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248781
    BC—91 to 130 centimeters (35.8 to 51.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 2 percent sand; 28 percent clay; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films; black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00527. lt. sicl; few 10yr2/1 MN oxides; continuous - phpvsfiid 1248784; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248783; continuous - phpvsfiid 1248784; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248783
    C—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 4 percent sand; 21 percent clay; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU00528. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248785; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1248785