IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sunburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA0810033
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA0810033
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0361
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58166
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 43.2166672
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7833328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 97N
  • Range: 25W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 320 feet E and 1400 feet N of SW corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA081—Hancock
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard Lensch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, calcareous, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sunburg
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sunburg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Udorth
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1985 (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
    • 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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    1Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; loam; 27 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02141. Some (10YR 5/4) mixings. Few small pebbles.; few fine roots
    1C1—8 to 61 centimeters (3.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 22 percent sand; 1 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine distinct and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, iron stains; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02142. Few small pebbles. Few fine shale fragments. Split for sampling 8 to 25 cm sample number 86P2142, 25 to 43 cm sample number 86P2143, 43 to 61 cm sample number 86P2144.; few iron stains surface features; few fine roots; many fine faint 10YR56 mottles; few fine distinct 5Y52 mottles
    1C2—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior loam; 22 percent clay; massive; friable; 37 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron stains and 37 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, iron stains; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P02145. Few small pebbles. Few fine shale fragments. Split for sampling 61 to 74 cm sample number 86P2145, 74 to 89 cm sample number 86P2146.; common iron stains surface features; common iron stains surface features