IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Backbone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982IA105019
  • User Pedon ID: S1982IA105019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X53-109-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74757
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 42.2811127
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9374947
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 86N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 240 feet north and 100 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA105—Jones
  • 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: IA105—Jones County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robin Wisner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Backbone
  • PSC - 46 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/2012
  • Classifier - Robin Wisner
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Backbone
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 46 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2011
  • Classifier - Robin Wisner
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy eolian deposits over limestone
  • Landscape: 2 upland
  • Landform: 1 hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robin Wisner
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    albic horizon

    lithic contact

    —

    —

    —

    —

    51—102

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    —-

    —-

    —-

    51—91—102
    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

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    270

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00131257

    CASCADE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sandy loam; 68 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01057; moist when described; observed in push tube
    E—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 10 percent clay; 1 percent brown (10YR 4/3) medium faint threadlike mottles; weak thin platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01058. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325086; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325086
    BE—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat well rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01059. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325087; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325087
    Bt1—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; 59 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01060. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325088; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325088
    Bt2—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; 72 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01061. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325089; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325089
    2Bt3—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); 45 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 25 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; 39 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 44 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 45 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter chert fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU01062. continuous - phpvsfiid 1325090; continuous - phpvsfiid 1325090
    2R—91 to 92 centimeters (35.8 to 36.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.