IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006IA065005
  • User Pedon ID: S2006IA065005
  • 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 - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0100
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18754
  • 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: 42.8960342
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7284393
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 1
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA065—Fayette
  • 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: IA065—Fayette County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Elizabeth Swanberg, Neil Sass
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • PSC - 43 to 93 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 - Downs
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/2006
  • Classifier - Elizabeth Swanberg
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • 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: Peoria silty loess
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • 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

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/31/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: ECS
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    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

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132864

    FAYETTE, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00617; observed in pit, small
    AB—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00618; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—43 to 89 centimeters (16.9 to 35.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 80 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00619; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 1313715; continuous - phpvsfiid 1313715
    Bt2—89 to 140 centimeters (35.0 to 55.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 35 percent fine black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00620; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—140 to 183 centimeters (55.1 to 72.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent fine gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions and 20 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 40 percent fine black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00621; observed in pit, small
    BC—183 to 203 centimeters (72.0 to 79.9 inches); silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium gray (10YR 6/1) iron depletions and 20 percent fine black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # 07N00622; observed in pit, small