IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dubuque
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IA061012
  • User Pedon ID: S1983IA061012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X61183
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74826
  • 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: 42.5954565
  • Std. Longitude: -90.9417349
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 90N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 285 feet north and 1480 feet east of the center
  • 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: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dubuque (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 28 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dubuque (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2013
  • 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
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 69cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/8/2013 (entry creation 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 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

    albic horizon

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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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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    NOAA
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular parts to weak thin platy structure; friable; common fine roots; thin light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and thin light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, sand coats on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02409. very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam with some dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), gray (10YR 6/1) dry; moderate fine granular structure grading to weak thin platy structure in the lower part; friable; common fine roots; thin discontinuous coatings of light gray (10YR 7/1) clean silt and sand grains on surface of platy structure; slightly acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361721; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361722; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361721; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361722
    E1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable; thin light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02410. slightly acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1361723; continuous - phpvsfiid 1361723
    E2—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak thin platy structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on all faces of peds and thin light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02411. medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361724; continuous - phpvsfiid 1361725; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361724; continuous - phpvsfiid 1361725
    Bt1—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (10YR 5/3) exterior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; thin light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02412. medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361726; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361726
    2Bt2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and thin light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU02413. medium acid; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361727; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361728; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361727; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1361728
    2Bt3—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior clay; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; thick dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, and yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, coats on all faces of peds; chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU02414. few small chert fragments; medium acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1361729; continuous - phpvsfiid 1361729
    3R—69 to 70 centimeters (27.2 to 27.6 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) bedrock; fragments. less than 1 inch of soft very pale brown (10YR 7/3) fragmented limestone over hard level bedded limestone. Some of the limestone fragments can be separated and have small amounts of reddish clayey material between them