IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Saude
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973IA089002
  • User Pedon ID: 1973IA089002
  • User Site Association ID: Saude - SDJR Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1765
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35923
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 43.2991676
  • Std. Longitude: -92.4749985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 98N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 67 feet north and 62 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: 3-1/2 miles north and 2 miles west of the town of Elma.
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA089—Howard
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA089—Howard County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. L. Buckner and J. D. Highland
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Saude
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Saude
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14009
    A—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; black (10YR 2/1) coats on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14010
    BA—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) coats on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14011
    Bw1—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine and medium pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14012. Thin section from this horizon requested.
    Bw2—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14013
    2BC—71 to 88 centimeters (28.0 to 34.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14014
    2C1—88 to 109 centimeters (34.6 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 10 percent clay bridges; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14015
    2C2—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A14016