IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rollingstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IA061030
  • User Pedon ID: S1983IA061030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61215C2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74829
  • 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: 42.4087184
  • Std. Longitude: -90.6020543
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1750 feet north and 1170 feet west of center
  • 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: Very-fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rollingstone
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wildale
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Mollic Paleudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2013
  • 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: loess over residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/14/2013 (entry creation 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

    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

    90

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    NOAA

    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/4), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam, silty clay loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent by volume 12-?-30 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03876. some pockets of brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam subsoil material; 10 percent 1/2- t01-inch chert fragments; slightly acid
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, coats on all faces of peds and silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume ? to 30-? millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03877. 1 percent 1-inch chert fragments; medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110819; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110819
    2Bt2—30 to 71 centimeters (11.8 to 28.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; 82 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; thin yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films; 23 percent by volume ? to 30-? millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03878. about 23 percent 1-inch chert fragments; strongly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110820; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110820
    2Bt3—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; 86 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; thin yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films; charcoal fragments observed by visual inspection method and 27 percent by volume ? to 30-? millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03879. about 27 percent 1-inch chert fragments; common black (N 2/0) charcoal flakes; strongly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110821; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110821
    2Bt4—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) clay; 71 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm; thin yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films; charcoal fragments observed by visual inspection method and 35 percent by volume 30-?-80 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03880. about 35 percent 1- to 3-inch chert fragments; few very dark gray (N 3/0) charcoal flakes; strongly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110822; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110822
    2BC—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; 70 percent clay; weak fine single grain, and weak fine prismatic; firm; charcoal fragments observed by visual inspection method and 50 percent by volume 80-?-100 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # ISU03881. about 50 percent 3 to 4-inch chert fragments; few very dark gray (N 3/0) charcoal flakes; strongly acid