IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dinsdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA083022
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA0830022
  • User Site Association ID: NC-WAV_Dinsdale_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0353
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56069
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 42.4119492
  • Std. Longitude: -93.0182571
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 128 feet south and 1140 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA083—Hardin
  • 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: IA083—Hardin County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ROD & EHH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dinsdale
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dinsdale
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed-calcareous and/or till derived from mixed-calcareous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1985 (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

    mollic epipedon

    0—15

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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

    7

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    270

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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01703. common roots
    1Bw1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01704. common roots
    1Bw2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01705. common roots
    2C1—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01706. common roots
    2C2—81 to 117 centimeters (31.9 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; massive; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01707. common roots
    2C3—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Not sampled.