IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Churchtown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969IA061001
  • User Pedon ID: S1969IA061001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61000-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74816
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 42.6078273
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9767534
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 90N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 685 feet south and 60 feet west of the northeast corner NE1/4 SW1/4
  • Location Description: 100' NW out of field gate
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA061—Dubuque
  • 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: IA061—Dubuque County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Maurice Massbach, John Highland
  • 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 PC 6.0B
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Churchtown
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2017
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/2/1969
  • Classifier - Maurice Massbach
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: loess
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/2/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Maurice Massbach
  • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    albic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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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

    13

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    270

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 4/2 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; cloddy, and weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # ISU02390
    E—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU02391
    BE—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU02392
    Bt1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 5/4 5/4) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; clay films and gray (10YR 6/1), dry, silt coats; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU02393. patchy - phpvsfiid 1344351; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1344352; patchy - phpvsfiid 1344351; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1344352
    Bt2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior and 5/4 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films and gray (10YR 6/1), dry, silt coats; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU02394. patchy - phpvsfiid 1344353; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1344354; patchy - phpvsfiid 1344353; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1344354
    BC1—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; prominent clay films; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU02395
    BC2—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles; structureless medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU02396
    C1—127 to 229 centimeters (50.0 to 90.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine and olive (5Y 5/6) fine mottles; massive; friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # ISU02397, ISU02398
    2C2—229 to 230 centimeters (90.2 to 90.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loam; olive gray (5Y 5/2) mottles; massive; fragments. Lab sample # ISU02399