IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978IA061035
  • User Pedon ID: S1978IA061035
  • 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 # - X61563-3
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74838
  • 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: 42.4465434
  • Std. Longitude: -90.6999899
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet north and 1160 feet east of the southwest corner
  • 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-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 PC6.0B
  • 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 - variant
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/1978
  • 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 over residuum weathered from shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: shale, unspecified at 229cm
  • Geology: Maquoketa formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/9/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    redox concentrations

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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

    11

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    0

    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); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; cloddy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02511
    AB—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02512
    Bt1—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; fine very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02513. continuous - phpvsfiid 1268589; continuous - phpvsfiid 1268589
    Bt2—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; fine very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02514. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268590; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268590
    C1—89 to 168 centimeters (35.0 to 66.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02515. Fe bands 5YR4/8 at 47 and 53" 1/2-1"thick; 7.5YR5/8 at 37 and 41" 1/4-1/2" thick; F10YR3/2 oxides
    C2—168 to 188 centimeters (66.1 to 74.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    C3—188 to 229 centimeters (74.0 to 90.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. 10YR6/6 Fe stains
    2R—229 to 231 centimeters (90.2 to 90.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam, bedrock; massive; firm; fragments. shale