IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharpsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA0030031
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA0030031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0497
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56763
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 41.1375008
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8874969
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 73N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 530 feet N and 1425 feet E of SW corner
  • Location Description: G. Boswell farm.
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA003—Adams
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MW & RL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharpsburg
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nira
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1984 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—15

    15—61

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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

    11

    0

    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay loam; cloddy, and weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02451. few fine roots
    1Bw1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine and medium prominent mottles; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02452. few fine roots; few fine and medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles
    1Bw2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine and medium distinct and 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02453. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; common fine and medium distinct 7.5YR46 mottles; common fine and medium distinct 7.5YR58 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 218761; patchy - phpvsfiid 218761
    1BC—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.1 fine and medium roots; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02454. few iron-manganese concretions concentrations; very few fine and medium roots; few fine distinct 7.5YR58 mottles; few fine distinct 7.5YR46 mottles
    1C1—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02455. few iron-manganese concretions concentrations; very few fine roots
    1C1—71 to 81 centimeters (28.0 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02456. few iron-manganese concretions concentrations; very few fine roots
    1C2—81 to 112 centimeters (31.9 to 44.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) silt loam; massive; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent coarse iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02457. few coarse iron-manganese concretions concentrations; very few fine roots
    1C3—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silt loam; massive; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent coarse iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; few coarse iron-manganese concretions concentrations; very few fine roots