IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharpsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA0030032
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA0030032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0498
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56764
  • 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: 41.1375008
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8874969
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 73N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet N and 1412 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: 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    18—64

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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

    13

    315

    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; cloddy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organic stains; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02458. few fine and medium roots
    1Bw1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 15 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02459. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine and medium roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218763; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218763
    1Bw2—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; 11 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 15 percent faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02460. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; very few fine roots; common fine faint 7.5YR54 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218764; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218764
    1BC—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and brown (7.5YR 5/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; 11 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02461. few iron-manganese concretions concentrations; very few fine roots; common fine faint 7.5YR44 mottles
    1C1—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 11 percent fine and medium iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02462. common fine and medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; very few fine roots
    1C1—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; massive; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 11 percent fine and medium iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02463. common fine and medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; very few fine roots
    1C2—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silt loam; massive; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 1 percent medium iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02464. few medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; very few fine roots
    1C3—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) coarse prominent mottles; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; few coarse prominent 7.5YR58 mottles