IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mottland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974IA069002
  • User Pedon ID: S1974IA069002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5194
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41891
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.8958321
  • Std. Longitude: -93.2624969
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 93N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 35 feet south and 140 feet east of the northwest corner of the SW1/4SW1/4
  • Location Description: about 2 miles west of Sheffield
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA069—Franklin
  • 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: IA069—Franklin County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Entic Hapludolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mottland
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Entic Hapludolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy eolian deposits derived from arenaceous limestone
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39067
    C1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; weakly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter limestone, arenaceous fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39068
    C2—28 to 152 centimeters (11.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) flaggy sandy loam; massive; friable; 3.0 roots; 20 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter limestone, arenaceous fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A39069