IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Billett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978IA061003
  • User Pedon ID: S1978IA061003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61775
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74842
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 42.4457875
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9241157
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1960 feet north and 1750 feet west of the southeast corner
  • 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: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, 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 - Billett
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/1978
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Billett
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/1978
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • 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: eolian deposits
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • 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: 7/20/1978 (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

    argillic 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

    7

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    —

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    135

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02442
    AB—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02443
    Bt1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02444. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268596; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268596
    Bt2—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02445. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268597; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268597
    BC1—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02446
    BC2—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02447
    BC3—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU02448. 5YR5/6 Fe and clay accumulation at 55"