IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IA005006
  • User Pedon ID: S1987IA005006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-119-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75157
  • 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: 43.2307772
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5762265
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 97N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet south and 50 feet east of the center
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/1987
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/1987
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/2/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

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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

    4

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    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01793. neutral
    A—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01794. neutral
    AB—36 to 43 centimeters (14.2 to 16.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01796. neutral
    Bg1—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01798. neutral; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105554; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105554
    Bg2—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01799. neutral; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105555; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105555
    Bg3—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silty clay loam; brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01800. neutral
    BCg—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; few fine pores; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01801. neutral
    Cg—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; massive; friable; few fine roots; few fine pores; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments. Lab sample # ISU01802. neutral