IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hamburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961IA071001
  • User Pedon ID: S1961IA071001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961IA071001
  • User Site Association ID: NC-ATL_Hamburg_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0198
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32727
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 40.6736107
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7041702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 68N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 60 feet north and 120 feet east of center of T intersection, extreme side
  • Location Description: approximately 5 1/2 miles northwest of Hamburg on county road K.
  • Map Unit: 2G—Hamburg silt loam, 40 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA071—Fremont
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ATL—Atlantic, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA071—Fremont County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40095-F6—Sidney, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Raymond I. Dideriksen, and John R. Nixon.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamburg
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hamburg
  • Classificaton Date - 3/23/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous loess
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/23/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUBE5

    Quercus berberidifolia

    scrub oak

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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

    70

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    225

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    AC—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 pores; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A01475
    C1—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak very fine granular, and massive; very friable; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 fine and medium pores; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A01476. Dark brown color seems to extend along cleavage planes.
    C2—25 to 61 centimeters (9.8 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak very fine granular, and massive; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 fine and medium pores; 1 percent brown (10YR 5/3) worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A01477
    C3—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine faint mottles; weak very fine granular, and massive; very friable; 0.1 fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; 3 percent carbonate threads; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A01478
    C4—97 to 137 centimeters (38.2 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine faint mottles; weak very fine granular, and massive; very friable; 0.1 fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A01479. Some very fine dark oxides; some light colored filament lime present.