IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990IA191003
  • User Pedon ID: S1990IA191003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X191163B-6
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74976
  • 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: 43.4717951
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7960839
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 45 feet south and 1570 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA191—Winneshiek
  • 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: IA191—Winneshiek County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.1B
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/1990
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • 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 - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/1990
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • 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: loess over clayey residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: at 234cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/4/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    lithic contact

    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

    2

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    180

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132110

    DECORAH, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02371
    BA—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak thin platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02372
    Bt1—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02373. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325364; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325364
    Bt2—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02374. continuous - phpvsfiid 1325365; continuous - phpvsfiid 1325365
    Bt3—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02375. continuous - phpvsfiid 1325366; continuous - phpvsfiid 1325366
    Bt4—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02376, ISU02377. continuous - phpvsfiid 1325367; continuous - phpvsfiid 1325367
    Bt5—94 to 117 centimeters (37.0 to 46.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 22 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse prominent and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) coarse distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and organic stains; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02378, ISU02379. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325368; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325370; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325368; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325370
    BC—117 to 135 centimeters (46.1 to 53.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 18 percent clay; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; oxide masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02380. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325369; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325369
    C1—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU02381
    C2—152 to 213 centimeters (59.8 to 83.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; fragments. with few mottles
    2C3—213 to 234 centimeters (83.9 to 92.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; 1 percent by volume nonflat ?-?-2 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method. clay residuum with common fine chert fragments 1-2mm
    2R—234 to 235 centimeters (92.1 to 92.5 inches); bedrock; fragments.