IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Seaton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IA061033
  • User Pedon ID: S1983IA061033
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 Proj
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61663
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74839
  • 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: 42.4709117
  • Std. Longitude: -90.6480963
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 260 feet south and 420 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: park near Julien Dubuque Monument
  • 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: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Seaton
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2022
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Seaton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • 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: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/26/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    albic 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

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    NOAA
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and gray (10YR 5/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02585. neutral
    E—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02586. slightly acid
    BE—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium angular blocky, and weak fine angular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02587. medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110828; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110828
    Bt1—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02588. medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110829; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110829
    Bt2—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; thin dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02589. strongly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110830; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110830
    Bt3—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; thin dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02590. strongly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110831; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110831
    Bt4—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; thin dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02591. medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110832; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1110832
    BC—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # ISU02592. medium acid