IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA0410031
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA0410031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0378
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56094
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 43.0397224
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9130554
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1382 feet N of SW corner
  • Location Description: 129 feet E and 182 feet from corner post by culvert. Stephas farm. Silver Lake Township.
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA147—Palo Alto

    • PEDON

  • 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 #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1984 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    23—89

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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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    225

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    1Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01812. Sampled to 15cm.; common fine roots
    1AB—23 to 28 centimeters (9.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01813. Sampled from 18 to 28cm.; common fine roots
    1Bw1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01814. Some 10YR 3/1 in upper part.; common fine roots
    1Bw2—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01815. Few 10YR 3/2 fills in upper part and some peds have 10YR 3/3 exteriors.; few fine roots
    1Bk1—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent masses of oxidized iron; 11 percent lime masses; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01816. Few 10YR 3/2 fills.; few soft masses of iron concentrations; common soft masses of lime concentrations; few roots
    1Bk2—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent lime masses; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01817. Few 10YR 3/2 fills.; common soft masses of lime concentrations; few roots; few fine faint 7.5YR58 mottles
    1C—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; massive; friable; , moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent dark concretions and 11 percent fine iron concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; common fine iron concretions concentrations; few dark concretions concentrations