IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arispe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1990IA053103
  • User Pedon ID: 1990IA053103
  • User Site Association ID: Arispe TUDS
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - Arispe-053-01
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 61.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0567
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19082
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 40.8659250
  • Std. Longitude: -93.7502417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 70N
  • Range: 25W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1,710 feet south and 460 feet west of thenortheast corner
  • Location Description: 1,710 feet south and 460 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 23C—Arispe silty clay loam, 5 to 9 percent slopes
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA053—Decatur
  • MLRA: 109—Iowa and Missouri Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA053—Decatur County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40093-G7—Van Wert, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arispe
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: noncalcareous loess over pedisediment
  • Landscape: Loess covered hillslope on dissected till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/2/2015 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—19

    19—183

    19—183

    37—183

    90—183

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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

    5

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 33 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03692; observed in push tube
    BA—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); 90 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 10 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 36 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N03693; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371770; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371770
    Btg1—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay; 5 percent sand; 37 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries and 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N03694; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371771; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371771
    Btg2—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face silty clay; 5 percent sand; 36 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N03695; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371772; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371772
    Btg3—51 to 58 centimeters (20.1 to 22.8 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face silty clay; 15 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses and 15 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N03696; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371773; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371773
    Btg4—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 34 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 5 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/1), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 15 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries and 15 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 15 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N03697; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371774; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371774
    Btg5—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 10 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, clay depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate nodules with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 07N03698; observed in push tube. common white sand grains on ped faces; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371775; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1371775
    BCg—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) broken face silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine moderate-continuity irregular pores; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, clay depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate nodules with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 07N03698; observed in push tube. common white sand grains on ped faces