IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IA041101
  • User Pedon ID: 83IA041101
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0393
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54637
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 43.0533333
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9177780
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 41 meters S and 346 meters W of NE corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA041—Clay

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Sherwood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 101
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; black (10YR 2/1) coats; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P02088
    1Ap—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; black (10YR 2/1) coats; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02089
    1Bw1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02090
    1Bw2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02091
    1C1—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint and 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02092. few fine faint 10YR56 mottles; few fine faint 2.5Y52 mottles
    1C2—74 to 112 centimeters (29.1 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 11 percent 2.5Y 5/ (2.5Y 5/ fine and medium distinct and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; massive; friable; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P02093. few soft masses of lime concentrations; common fine and medium distinct 2.5Y55 mottles; common medium faint 10YR56 mottles
    1C3—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) medium distinct and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; massive; friable; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, oxide coats; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; few oxide coats surface features; common medium distinct 2.5Y52 mottles; common medium faint 10YR56 mottles