IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otter
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA097935
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA097935
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988IA097935
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-000-10
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74637
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Mississippi River Floodplain; Railroad Island; NO LOCATION- See site text notes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA097—Jackson
  • 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: IA097—Jackson County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otter
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/1984
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Otter
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/1984
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: silty alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/20/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACSA2

    POPUL

    ULAM

    URTIC

    Acer saccharinum

    Populus

    Ulmus americana

    Urtica

    silver maple

    cottonwood

    American elm

    nettle

    tree

    tree

    tree

    forb

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

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    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

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00130608

    BELLEVUE L AND D 12, IA US

    NOAA
    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; friable; common very fine roots; fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # ISU03376
    C—18 to 91 centimeters (7.1 to 35.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; friable; few very fine roots; fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # ISU03377, ISU03378, ISU03379
    Ab—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 20 percent clay; friable; few very fine roots; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fine distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # ISU03380, ISU03381