IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973IA043010
  • User Pedon ID: S1973IA043010
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Colo_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X22-133-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75032
  • 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: 42.9206882
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2698074
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 94N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 153 feet south and 186 feet west of northeast corner
  • 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 Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1973
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1973
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • 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: silty alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • 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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/1973 (actual site observation 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    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

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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
    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00544. slightly acid
    A2—15 to 51 centimeters (5.9 to 20.1 inches); black (N 2/0), very dark gray (N 3/0), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00545. slightly acid
    A3—51 to 79 centimeters (20.1 to 31.1 inches); black (5Y 2/1), very dark gray (5Y 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00546. slightly acid
    A4—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); very dark gray (5Y 3/1), dark gray (5Y 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fine faint iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00547. few fine faint dark reddish concretions (iron oxide); neutral
    A5—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00548. few dark reddish concretions (iron oxide); neutral
    C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silty clay loam; olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00549. neutral