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Mucks/Peats (cf. Woden Member):
Sediments filling semi-closed and closed depressions(late Wisconsinan through Holocene in Age)
- Alternating zones of fine-grained colluvium, peat, and muck.
- Organic sediments (peat and muck) are common, capping depositional units.
- Can be buried by lighter-colored Camp Creek colluvium
- Mineral sediment is usually a reduced light gray color at base, grading upward to black, organic-coated sediment
- Base dates from 14,000 RCYBP in central Iowa to 12,000 RCYBP in northern Iowa
- NRCS Map Units for these series are in concave depressions on glacial lake and till plains, upland drainageways, floodplains

 ISPAID MLRA ISPAID Parent Material ISPAID Landscape Position

 
SeriesSurface Material
ADRIANmucks/peats
BLUE_EARTHmucks/peats
BOOTSmucks/peats
ELVERSmucks/peats
HOUGHTONmucks/peats
KLOSSNERmucks/peats
MUSKEGOmucks/peats
PALMSmucks/peats

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