IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dorchester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA097014
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA097014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-158-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74656
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 42.3761249
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5595900
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 87N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet north and 180 feet west of the center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA097—Jackson
  • 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: IA097—Jackson County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Udifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dorchester
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/5/2013
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous silty alluvium
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • 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: 5/13/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

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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

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00130608

    BELLEVUE L AND D 12, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; massive parts to weak medium platy; friable; common very fine roots; distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03115. appears massive but parts to 1mpl fragments; mildly alkaline
    C—18 to 74 centimeters (7.1 to 29.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; massive parts to weak thin platy, and massive parts to weak medium platy; friable; few very fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03116. appears massive but parts to weak m and tn platy fragments; mildly alkaline
    2Ab1—74 to 127 centimeters (29.1 to 50.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak coarse granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU03117. mildly alkaline
    2Ab2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # ISU03118. mildly alkaline