IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nordness
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA005002
  • User Pedon ID: S1985IA005002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985IA005002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X3-499E-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75195
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 43.3084838
  • Std. Longitude: -91.4359862
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 98N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet north and 800 feet east of the center
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA005—Allamakee
  • 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: IA005—Allamakee County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora, Jim Marzke
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nordness
  • PSC - 30 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/1985
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nordness
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 30 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/28/1985
  • Classifier - Robert Vobora
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over loamy pedisediment derived from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 38cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Bob Vobora
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Bob Vobora

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): A scan of the original data (i.e. field sheet(s), edits, manuscripts, notes, and other associated data) is available in the scans archive.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Robert Vobora
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    CARYA

    JUGLA

    Carya

    Juglans

    hybrid hickory

    walnut

    tree

    tree

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    —

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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

    albic horizon

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    —

    —

    —

    —

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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

    15

    —

    —

    —

    —

    90

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00134624

    LANSING 4 SE, IA US

    NOAA
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; many very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01517. mildly alkaline
    E—8 to 13 centimeters (3.1 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak thin platy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01518. neutral
    BE—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots and few medium roots and few fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01519. neutral
    Bt1—30 to 36 centimeters (11.8 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few medium roots and few fine roots; thin brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01520. slightly acid; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105559; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105559
    2Bt2—36 to 38 centimeters (14.2 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine angular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; thin dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU01521. mildly alkaline; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105560; continuous - phpvsfiid 1105560
    2R—38 to 152 centimeters (15.0 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. fractured limestone bedrock