IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sharpsburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012IA029002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012IA029002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0542
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74318
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 41.1794680
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9514982
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: Y192D2—Adair clay loam, dissected till plain, 9 to 14 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA029—Cass
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ATL—Atlantic, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA029—Cass County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41094-B8—Grant, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hammerly, John
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharpsburg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/2012
  • Classifier - Pulido, Dan
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dissected till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/23/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MLRA SSO 11-ATL
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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 27 centimeters (0.0 to 10.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02518; observed in push tube
    A—27 to 46 centimeters (10.6 to 18.1 inches); 80 percent black (10YR 2/1) broken face and 20 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02519; observed in push tube
    Bt1—46 to 65 centimeters (18.1 to 25.6 inches); 75 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face and 25 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02520; observed in push tube
    Bt2—65 to 86 centimeters (25.6 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent clay films and 10 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02521; observed in push tube
    Bt3—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); 35 percent brown (10YR 4/3) broken face and 65 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent clay films; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02522; observed in push tube
    Bt4—117 to 138 centimeters (46.1 to 54.3 inches); 75 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4 percent clay films; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses and 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02523; observed in push tube
    2Bt5—138 to 203 centimeters (54.3 to 79.9 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 4 percent clay films; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 13N02524; observed in push tube