IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Downs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959IA191034
  • User Pedon ID: S1959IA191034
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 Proj
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X191162-7-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74973
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 43.1834519
  • Std. Longitude: -91.6927883
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 97N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 60 feet north and 150 feet east of the southeast corner SE1/4SW1/4
  • 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: Unknown
  • 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: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Downs
  • PSC - 41 to 91 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 - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/10/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh 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
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/10/2013 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    albic horizon

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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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    00132110

    DECORAH, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    E1—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    E2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02298
    Bt1—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02299
    C—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats; fragments. Lab sample # ISU02300