IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dorchester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959IA191056
  • User Pedon ID: S1959IA191056
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X1917003-1-0
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75008
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 43.2512746
  • Std. Longitude: -91.8091622
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 97N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: northeast corner of SW1/4NE1/4
  • 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, calcareous, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: variant
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dorchester
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/2014
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dorchester
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/2014
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • 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: 7/22/2014 (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

    lithologic discontinuity

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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
    A—0 to 46 centimeters (0.0 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) and black (10YR 2/1) stratified stratified silt loam; weak thin platy structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    2Ab1—46 to 86 centimeters (18.1 to 33.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    Ab3—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bb2—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02337
    Bb3—127 to 142 centimeters (50.0 to 55.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments.