IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SND
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978IA061009
  • User Pedon ID: S1978IA061009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61563-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74837
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 42.4705211
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8070677
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet south and 1510 feet west of northeast corner
  • 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: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/2021
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/1978
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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 shale
  • 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: 8/25/1978 (actual site observation 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

    redox concentrations

    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

    16

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    90

    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; cloddy parts to weak thin platy structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02481
    Bt1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02482. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268592; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268592
    Bt2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02483. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268593; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268593
    Bt3—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02484. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268594; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268594
    Bt4—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; clay films; fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02485. mottled; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268595; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1268595
    C1—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay loam; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02486. thin 5YR4/4 and 7.5YR Fe bands
    C2—152 to 170 centimeters (59.8 to 66.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; massive; friable; chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified. Lab sample # ISU02487. 1/2" chert frag at 64"; thin 5YR4/4 and 7.5YR Fe bands