IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dubuque
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990IA191001
  • User Pedon ID: S1990IA191001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1990IA191001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X191703C2-8
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75010
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024
  • 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: 43.4749721
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7595287
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 1140 feet north and 2290 feet west of southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA191—Winneshiek
  • 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: IA191—Winneshiek County, Iowa
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dubuque
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/2013
  • Classifier - Michael England
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dubuque
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/5/1990
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - crop row on bed or ridge
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess over residuum weathered from limestone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 76cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Bob Vobora
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Bob Vobora
  • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): A scan of the original data (i.e. field sheet(s), edits, manuscripts, notes, and other associated data) is available in the scans archive.
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/5/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • 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
  • Extra Moisture Source: none
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

    grass/grasslike

    100

    overstory

    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    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

    7

    338

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    00132110

    DECORAH, IA US

    NOAA

    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); 95 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02352
    Bt1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02353. continuous - phpvsfiid 1084573; continuous - phpvsfiid 1084573
    Bt2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02354. continuous - phpvsfiid 1084574; continuous - phpvsfiid 1084574
    Bt3—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films and gray (10YR 6/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU02355. continuous - phpvsfiid 1084575; continuous - phpvsfiid 1084575
    2Bt4—71 to 76 centimeters (28.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; few very fine roots; thin brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films and black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU02356. continuous - phpvsfiid 1084577; continuous - phpvsfiid 1084577
    2R—76 to 203 centimeters (29.9 to 79.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.