IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA097040
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA097040
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-814C2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74726
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 42.0527076
  • Std. Longitude: -90.7122633
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 720 feet south and 440 feet east of the center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA097—Jackson
  • 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: IA097—Jackson County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockton
  • PSC - 41 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/22/1985
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 41 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/22/1985
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone) at 71cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/22/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

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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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    —

    —

    —

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    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00130608

    BELLEVUE L AND D 12, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; common very fine roots; distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03049. slightly acid
    A—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable; common very fine roots; distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03050. slightly acid
    Bt1—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03051. slightly acid
    Bt2—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU03052. neutral
    R—71 to 72 centimeters (28.0 to 28.3 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) bedrock; fragments. brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), weathered limestone about 1 inch thick over hard, fractured dolomitic limestone bedrock