IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sparta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988IA097045
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IA097045
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X49-41-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74689
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 42.2754315
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8896015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 86N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 860 feet north and 200 feet west of the corner
  • Location Description: LOCATION SUSPECT - See Site Text notes
  • 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: Sandy, mixed, mesic Entic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sparta
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/1984
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sparta
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed, mesic Entic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/1984
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: sandy eolian deposits
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    lamellae

    cambic horizon

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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

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00130608

    BELLEVUE L AND D 12, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; very friable; few very fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02039. neutral
    A—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy sand; weak fine granular, and weak very fine granular structure; very friable; few very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02040. mixed with some streaks and pockets of dark brown (10YR 3/3) subsurface material; neutral
    Bw1—43 to 86 centimeters (16.9 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) sand; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; few very fine roots and few fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02041. dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) krotovina at a depth of 26 inches; neutral
    Bw2—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sand; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; very friable; few very fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU02042. dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) krotovina at a depth of 38 inches; neutral
    C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) sand; single grain; loose; few very fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # ISU02043. brown (7.5YR 4/4) lamellae, 0.25 inch thick, at depths of 58 and 60 inches; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) krotovina at a depth of 55 inches; neutral