IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979IA061016
  • User Pedon ID: S1979IA061016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61119-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74820
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 42.4307189
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0528240
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 167 feet north And 125 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
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/1979
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/17/1979
  • 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
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/17/1979 (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

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    225

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    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; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02578
    A—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed, dark gray (10YR 4/1) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02579
    AB—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed and brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02580
    Bt1—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay loam; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02581. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325315; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325315
    Bt2—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); silty clay loam; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 5/4 5/4) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02582. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325317; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1325317
    BC—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 5/2 5/2) silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02583
    C—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU02584