IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Killduff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1985IA0830011
  • User Pedon ID: 1985IA0830011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0349
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56065
  • 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: 42.2527771
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1211090
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 86N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 920 feet west and 236 feet north of SE corner
  • Location Description: N. Hadley farm.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA083—Hardin
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA089—Howard County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ROD & EHH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Killduff
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Killduff
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Dystric Eutrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty loess
  • Landscape: dissected till plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    8—76

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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

    11

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    1Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01683. common roots
    1BA—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01684. common roots
    1Bw1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01685. common roots; few fine distinct 10YR56 mottles
    1Bw2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01686. common roots; few fine distinct 10YR58 mottles
    1C1—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silt loam; massive; very friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01687. common roots
    1C2—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior silt loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; massive; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; common medium prominent 7.5YR58 mottles