IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Winneshiek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA1310021
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA1310021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0514
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56780
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 43.2750015
  • Std. Longitude: -92.8666687
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA131—Mitchell
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA131—Mitchell County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P+K
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Winneshiek
  • PSC - 28 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Winneshiek
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Mollic Hapludalf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: drift derived from mixed-calcareous and/or till derived from mixed-calcareous and/or solid rock derived from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    28—69

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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

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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02558; dry when described;. Few mixings of 10YR 4/3.
    1BE—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02559; dry when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218825; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218825
    2Bt1—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3) organic stains on faces of peds and 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02560; dry when described;. Weak pebble band at upper boundary.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218826; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218826
    2Bt2—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films in root channels and/or pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02561; dry when described;. few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores
    2Bt3—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02562; dry when described;. Thick 10YR 3/2 accumulations.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds
    2Bt4—61 to 69 centimeters (24.0 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent iron concretions; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 85P02563. few iron concretions concentrations
    2R—69 to 74 centimeters (27.2 to 29.1 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled.