IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Winneshiek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA1310032
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA1310032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0476
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58281
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 43.2405548
  • Std. Longitude: -92.7900009
  • 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: Kermit Voy, Shannon Gomes and Jim Sanner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Winneshiek
  • 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 - 11/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • 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
    • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02835
    1EB—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak medium platy, and weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02836
    1Bt1—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02837. Few (10YR 4/2) clay flows.
    2Bt2—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent and 1 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02838. (10YR 3/2) clay flows.; few fine prominent 7.5YR58 mottles; few fine prominent 5YR33 mottles
    3C—64 to 69 centimeters (25.2 to 27.2 inches); yellow (2.5Y 7/6) interior weathered bedrock; massive; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Thin layer of cemented sandstone (CaCO3); texture is sandstone.
    4C—69 to 79 centimeters (27.2 to 31.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; massive; firm; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02839. (10YR 3/1 and 10YR 4/2) clay flows; mixings of small sandstone frags in lower part.; few fine prominent 5YR58 mottles; few fine prominent 7.5YR58 mottles
    5C—79 to 91 centimeters (31.1 to 35.8 inches); weathered bedrock; 15 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P02840. Weakly cemented (CaCO3) sandstone and siltstone.; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores