IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Norden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977WI081008
  • User Pedon ID: S1977WI081008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977WI081008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5210
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42457
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 43.9966660
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8913879
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet south and 160 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: About 4.5 miles northwest of Sparta
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI081—Monroe
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI081—Monroe County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Norden
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/2018
  • Classifier - Michael England
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - La Farge
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1977
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess over residuum weathered from glauconitic sandstone
  • Landscape: highly dissected upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    POA

    MEDIC

    PLANT

    TARAX

    TRPR2

    Poa

    Medicago

    Plantago

    Taraxacum

    Trifolium pratense

    bluegrass

    alfalfa

    plantain

    dandelion

    red clover

    grass/grasslike

    forb

    forb

    forb

    forb

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    —

    —

    —
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

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    —

    —

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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

    12

    —

    —

    335.3

    —

    135

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00475164

    MATHER 3 NW, WI US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39169
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39170. continuous - phpvsfiid 1590138; continuous - phpvsfiid 1590138
    Bt2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39171. continuous - phpvsfiid 1590139; continuous - phpvsfiid 1590139
    Bt3—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39172. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1590140; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1590140
    2Bt4—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39173. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1590141; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1590141
    Cr1—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches); olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) and black (5Y 2/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) stratified stratified loam; structureless massive; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39174
    Cr2—102 to 132 centimeters (40.2 to 52.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and black (5Y 2/2) stratified stratified sandy loam; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39175
    Cr3—132 to 156 centimeters (52.0 to 61.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) stratified stratified sandy loam; structureless massive; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A39176