The Dresden series consists of well drained soils on outwash plains and stream terraces. Slope ranges from 0 to 30 percent. These soils formed in as much as 20 inches of silty material and loamy sediments over calcareous gravel and sand.
Permeability is moderate in the loamy sediments and very rapid in the gravel and sand.
Dresden silt loam in a cultivated field at an elevation of about 585 feet. 41 degrees 34 minutes 12 seconds N., and long. 88 degrees 36 minutes 7 seconds W., NAD 27. The depth to the base of soil development and the depth to carbonates ranges from 24 to 40 inches. The depth to horizons with greater that 90 percent sand and greater than 50 percent gravel ranges from 24 to 40 inches.