IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dubuque
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960IA191002
  • User Pedon ID: S1960IA191002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X191183-11-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74981
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 43.4751705
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7596279
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 280 feet south and 350 feet east of the northwest corner SW1/4SE1/4
  • 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: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dubuque
  • PSC - 25 to 69 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 - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/9/2013
  • 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 limestone
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 69cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Ken Kittleson
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Ken Kittleson

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1960 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Kenneth Kittleson
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    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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    00132110

    DECORAH, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak crumb structure; friable; silt coats and sand coats; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. structural coatings of white silt and very fine sand are common; medium acid (agricultural lime has been applied)
    BE—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; silt coats and sand coats and clay films; fragments; clear smooth boundary. heavy silt loam; structural coatings of white silt or very fine sand are common; few clay films; strongly acid
    Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on all faces of peds and silt coats and sand coats and clay films; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02344. structural coatings of white silt and very fine sand are common; few clay films; very strongly acid; few iron-manganese concretions
    Bt2—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) mottles; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on all faces of peds and silt coats and clay films and sand coats; iron-manganese concretions; very strongly coherent cemented ?-?-100 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02345. brown 10YR4/3 ped coatings and a few splotches of dark reddish brown 5YR3/4; silty clay coatings and a few splotches of dark reddish brown 5YR3/4; structural coatings of white silt or very fine sand are prominent; slightly firm; clay film common; strongly acid; few iron-manganese concretions; chert fragments up to 4" long are common
    2BC—64 to 69 centimeters (25.2 to 27.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films; iron-manganese concretions; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU02346. weathered bedrock; medium acid; iron-manganese concretions are common; continuous - phpvsfiid 1084613; continuous - phpvsfiid 1084613
    2R—69 to 70 centimeters (27.2 to 27.6 inches); bedrock; fragments. limestone bedrock