IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bertram
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA097005
  • User Pedon ID: S1985IA097005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-809-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74725
  • 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: 42.1015892
  • Std. Longitude: -90.6278610
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1320 feet south and 100 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA097—Jackson
  • 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: IA097—Jackson County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42090-A6—Maquoketa, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Scott Switzer, Kevin Funni
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bertram
  • PSC - 25 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1987
  • Classifier - Scott Switzer
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bertram
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/28/1985
  • Classifier - Kevin Funni
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy eolian deposits over loamy over residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 79cm
  • Geology: Gower Fm member of the Silurian group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/28/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Kevin Funni
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    79 -

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

    lithologic discontinuity

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    —

    0—28

    28—79

    79—

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    14

    —

    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    —

    00130608

    BELLEVUE L AND D 12, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium granular, and weak coarse granular structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots; 40 percent distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01604
    A—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; sandy loam; 68 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak medium granular, and weak coarse granular structure; very friable; 0.9 very fine roots; 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01605
    Bw1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sandy loam; 71 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.7 very fine roots; 20 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01606
    Bw2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; 74 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 10 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01607
    2Bw3—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy clay loam; 65 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 21 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.3 very fine roots; 35 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU01608
    2R—79 to 92 centimeters (31.1 to 36.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.