IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Norden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977WI103002
  • User Pedon ID: S1977WI103002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977WI103002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5206
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42453
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 43.3366661
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4261093
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1050 feet north and 1000 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: About 1.5 miles west of Richland Center
  • Map Unit: 254E2—Norden silt loam, 20 to 30 percent slopes, moderately eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI103—Richland
  • 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: WI103—Richland County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Hudelson, Frank Anderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Norden
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2007
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Norden
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1977
  • Classifier - George Hudelson
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess over silty residuum weathered from glauconitic sandstone
  • Landscape: strongly dissected (bedrock controlled) unglaciated upland
  • Landform: convex valley side
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: strongly
  • 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 Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ACHIL

    AMBRO

    LEUCA4

    PLANT

    TARAX

    VERBE

    Poa

    Achillea

    Ambrosia

    Leucanthemum

    Plantago

    Taraxacum

    Verbena

    bluegrass

    yarrow

    ragweed

    daisy

    plantain

    dandelion

    vervain

    grass/grasslike

    forb

    forb

    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, lithic

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    —

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

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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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    474404

    LA FARGE, WI US

    NOAA/COOP
    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39139
    Bt1—18 to 32 centimeters (7.1 to 12.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; thin brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39140. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917204; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917204
    Bt2—32 to 47 centimeters (12.6 to 18.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; thin brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39141. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917205; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917205
    2Bt3—47 to 61 centimeters (18.5 to 24.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 0.5 fine pores; thin brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and very pale brown (10YR 8/3), moist, silt coats on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter chert fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39142. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917201; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1917201
    2BCt1—61 to 77 centimeters (24.0 to 30.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 medium pores; ; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, glauconitic fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39143
    2BCt2—77 to 89 centimeters (30.3 to 35.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 0.5 medium pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, glauconitic fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39144
    2BCt3—89 to 97 centimeters (35.0 to 38.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 3 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, glauconitic fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39145. 2Bt33 is a "beta" horizon
    R—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.