IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979IA061014
  • User Pedon ID: S1979IA061014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61119-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74821
  • 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: 42.4263665
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0696345
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet north and 880 feet east of the southwest 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: MN045—Fillmore County, Minnesota
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludolls
  • 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 #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • PSC - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/1979
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/1979
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • 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: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/1979 (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
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    argillic 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

    2

    135

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    NOAA

    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02571
    A—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02572
    BA—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02573
    Bt1—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02574. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325313; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325313
    Bt2—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films; fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist,; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02575. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325314; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325314
    BC—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02576
    C—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU02577