IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wapsie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979IA061005
  • User Pedon ID: S1979IA061005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61777
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74843
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 42.4024603
  • Std. Longitude: -91.1116676
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet and 10 feet of the southwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA061—Dubuque
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN045—Fillmore County, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, 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
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wapsie
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/1979
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy sediment over glacial outwash
  • Landform: Convex outwash terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02523
    A2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and 3/2 3/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3) and 5/2 5/2), dry; loam; moderate thick platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02524
    Bt1—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02525. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325310; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325310
    Bt21—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02526. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325311; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325311
    2Bt22—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02527. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325312; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325312
    2Bt3—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loamy sand; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02528
    2C1—89 to 137 centimeters (35.0 to 53.9 inches); 5/6 5/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) sand; single grain; loose; chert fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU02529
    2C2—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # ISU02530