IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nordness
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982IA097003
  • User Pedon ID: S1982IA097003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-499-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74704
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 42.0990696
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3066746
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 85N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 10 feet north and 340 feet west of the center
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • 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 - 28 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1983
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nordness
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1983
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone) at 48cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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
    • 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

    albic horizon

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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

    14

    —

    —

    —

    —

    180

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00130608

    BELLEVUE L AND D 12, IA US

    NOAA
    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; common very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00945. slightly acid
    E—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00946. slightly acid
    BE—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine roots; distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00947. neutral
    Bt1—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00948. neutral
    2Bt2—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) distinct mottles; moderate fine angular blocky, and moderate very fine angular blocky structure; very firm; few very fine roots; 10 percent by volume 5-?-35 millimeter chert fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # ISU00949. neutral
    2R—48 to 49 centimeters (18.9 to 19.3 inches); bedrock; fragments. hard, fractured dolomitic limestone bedrock