IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Backbone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IA061008
  • User Pedon ID: S1979IA061008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61109C
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74819
  • 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: 42.3813656
  • Std. Longitude: -91.0298133
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 87 North
  • Range: 2 West
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1110 feet east and 440 feet south of the northwest corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA061—Dubuque
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA061—Dubuque County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robin Wisner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Backbone
  • Classificaton Date - 7/5/2012
  • Classifier - Robin Wisner
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Backbone
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/2011
  • Classifier - Robin Wisner
  • 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: coarse-loamy eolian deposits over limestone
  • Landscape: 2 upland
  • Landform: 1 hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    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

    7

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; 81 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02545; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bw1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; 81 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02546
    Bw2—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; 83 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 15 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU02547. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361738; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361738
    2Bt—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; 48 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 44 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic structure; firm; 15 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU02548. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361739; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361739
    2R—66 to 67 centimeters (26.0 to 26.4 inches); fragments. hard fractured limestone