IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Norden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994WI121001
  • User Pedon ID: S1994WI121001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994WI121001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 95P0347
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 67365
  • 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: 44.1775017
  • Std. Longitude: -91.1544418
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1750 feet north and 570 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI121—Trempealeau
  • 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: WI121—Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 44091-B2—Hegg, Wisconsin
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dennis Anthony, Dave Omernik
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Norden
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Classifier - Dave Omernik
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Norden
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/1994
  • Classifier - Dave Omernik
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty loess over colluvium derived from glauconite
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: s slight weathered glauconite with 100 to <200 and a strike of 45 degrees and a dip of 2 to 2 degrees
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUERC

    Quercus

    oak

    tree

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

    bedrock, lithic

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

    lithologic discontinuity

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—88

    88—93

    —-

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    7

    38

    12

    354

    315

    899

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

    478259

    STRUM 4 S, WI US

    NOAA/COOP

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P02701
    Bt1—20 to 29 centimeters (7.9 to 11.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 10 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P02702. patchy - phpvsfiid 1900268; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900267; patchy - phpvsfiid 1900268; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900267
    Bt2—29 to 43 centimeters (11.4 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3) silt coats on faces of peds and in pores and 30 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P02703. patchy - phpvsfiid 1900274; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900273; patchy - phpvsfiid 1900274; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900273
    2Bt3—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) skeletans on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P02704. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900279; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900277; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900278; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900279; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900277; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900278
    2Bt4—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine sandy loam; weak medium platy parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-76-150 millimeter glauconite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 95P02705. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900269; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900269
    2Bt5—71 to 79 centimeters (28.0 to 31.1 inches); 20 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 80 percent olive (5Y 4/3) loamy fine sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent faint olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay films on faces of peds and 10 percent prominent dark greenish gray (5G 4/1) clay bridges on horizontal faces of peds and 30 percent distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) skeletans on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P02706. Color is speckled. Very moist condition.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1900271; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900270; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900272; patchy - phpvsfiid 1900271; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900270; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1900272
    3Bt6—79 to 88 centimeters (31.1 to 34.6 inches); 60 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 80 percent olive (5Y 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine low-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) clay films on faces of peds and 10 percent faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) skeletans on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-76-150 millimeter glauconite fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 95P02707. Color is marbled. Clod sampled for thin section analysis to verify clay movement and pedological development.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1900275; patchy - phpvsfiid 1900276; patchy - phpvsfiid 1900275; patchy - phpvsfiid 1900276
    3R—88 to 93 centimeters (34.6 to 36.6 inches); 75 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) bedrock; moderately strong, moderately cemented by iron; fragments. Can be chipped, impractical to dig, iron oxide cemented layer. Sandstone bedrock surface is dimpled due to weathering by chemical solution.