IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Killduff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1985IA1270032
  • User Pedon ID: 1985IA1270032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0376
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58181
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 42.0416679
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1083298
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 1855 feet W and 430 feet N of the SE corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA127—Marshall
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA127—Marshall County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robin Wisner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic 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 #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Killduff
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Killduff
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Dystric Eutrochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1985 (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
    • 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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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02228
    1Bw1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02229. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1370416; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1370416
    1Bw2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02230. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1370417; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1370417
    1BC—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; 11 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02231. common fine and medium distinct 5YR46 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1370418; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1370418
    1C1—86 to 117 centimeters (33.9 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silt loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02232. common medium distinct 7.5YR46 mottles
    1C2—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior silt loam; 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Few small secondary lime concretions.; common fine distinct 2.5Y52 mottles