IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA005005
  • User Pedon ID: S1984IA005005
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 ProjLoamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-163B-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75172
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 43.1651418
  • Std. Longitude: -91.2429702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 96N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 720 feet south and 2080 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA005—Allamakee
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA005—Allamakee County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43091-B2—Harpers Ferry, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 33 to 83 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 - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/1984
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Bob Vobora
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Bob Vobora

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • 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

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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

    3

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    —

    334

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; friable; common very fine roots and few medium roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01343. neutral
    E1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable; few very fine roots and few medium roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01344. neutral
    E2—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots and few fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01345. very strongly acid
    BE—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; gray (10YR 6/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01346. very strongly acid; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307295; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307295
    Bt1—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and gray (10YR 6/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01347. very strongly acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307299; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307300; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307299; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307300
    Bt2—43 to 94 centimeters (16.9 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium angular blocky, and strong fine angular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots and few fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and gray (10YR 6/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01348, ISU01349, ISU01350. strongly acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307293; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307294; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307293; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307294
    BC—94 to 130 centimeters (37.0 to 51.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films and gray (10YR 6/1), dry, silt coats and organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01351, ISU01352. medium acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307296; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307297; continuous - phpvsfiid 1307296; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307297
    C—130 to 183 centimeters (51.2 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; few very fine roots and few fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and gray (10YR 6/1), dry, silt coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01353. massive with distinct vertical cleavage planes; silt coatings are on cleavage planes; slightly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1307301; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307302; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1307301; patchy - phpvsfiid 1307302