IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Orwood
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976IA061008
  • User Pedon ID: S1976IA061008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976IA061008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61480
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74834
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 42.3115491
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8491949
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 87N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 760 feet north and 2430 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 60 paces east if fence line and 84 paces north of lane next to hog lot
  • 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: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Orwood
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/1976
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Orwood
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/1976
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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: 8/9/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    MEDIC

    Avena

    Medicago

    oat

    alfalfa

    grass/grasslike

    forb

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    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

    9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02432. mixed with some streaks and pockets of brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam subsoil material; neutral
    BE—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 26 percent sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds and black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats on surfaces along root channels; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02433. neutral
    Bt1—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 30 percent sand; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on all faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02434. slightly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110805; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110805
    Bt2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on all faces of peds and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02435. few fine black (10YA 2/1) concretions (manganese oxide); medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110808; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110808
    Bt3—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; thin brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films and light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses and fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02436. few fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron accumulations (oxide); few fine black (10YR 2/1) concretions (manganese oxide); 1/2-inch sandy loam lens at 38 inches; medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110811; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110811
    BC—99 to 117 centimeters (39.0 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 30 percent sand; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02437. few fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) concretions (iron oxide); 1-inch loamy sand lens at 45 inches; medium acid
    C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU02438. 1/2-inch loamy sand lens at 55 inches, 1 112-inch lens at 57 inches; slightly acid