IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA005007
  • User Pedon ID: S1984IA005007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984IA005007
  • 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 # - X3-120B-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75158
  • 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: 43.4986684
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4640547
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 620 feet south and 1910 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
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA005—Allamakee County, Iowa
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • PSC - 36 to 86 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 - Tama
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/1984
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - crop row on bed or ridge
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • 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 - 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: 10/2/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Extra Moisture Source: none
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

    grass/grasslike

    100

    overstory

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    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

    3

    350.5

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA

    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01365
    AB—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; few very fine roots and few fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01366
    Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01367. continuous - phpvsfiid 1181091; continuous - phpvsfiid 1181091
    Bt2—48 to 91 centimeters (18.9 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01369, ISU01368. continuous - phpvsfiid 1181092; continuous - phpvsfiid 1181092
    Bt3—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01370. continuous - phpvsfiid 1181093; continuous - phpvsfiid 1181093
    BC—112 to 130 centimeters (44.1 to 51.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01371
    C—130 to 170 centimeters (51.2 to 66.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 23 percent clay; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium distinct and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU01372