IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dorchester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974IA043003
  • User Pedon ID: S1974IA043003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X22-158-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75035
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 42.7033921
  • Std. Longitude: -91.3463633
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 91N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 75 feet north and 660 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA043—Clayton
  • 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: IA043—Clayton County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dorchester (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/1974
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dorchester (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/1974
  • 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: stratified, calcareous alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    1

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    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132603

    ELKADER 6 SSW, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00612. mildly alkaline
    C—20 to 79 centimeters (7.9 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) stratified stratified silt loam; massive, and platy; friable; fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00613. massive but tending to be platy because of geologic deposition; common fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) oxides; mildly alkaline
    2Ab1—79 to 124 centimeters (31.1 to 48.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00614. neutral
    2Ab2—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments. neutral