IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA0810011
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA0810011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0577
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56843
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 43.0279958
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5366204
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 169 feet E and 1140 feet S of NW corner SW 1/4
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA081—Hancock

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. A. Lensch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • 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 - 1/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1984 (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

    cambic horizon

    0—48

    36—152

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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

    2

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    225

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    1Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02953. few fine roots
    1Ap—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; loam; 19 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02954. few fine roots
    1A—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; loam; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02955; dry when described;. few fine roots
    1AB—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1) organic stains on faces of peds and 15 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02956; dry when described;. Few (10YR 4/3) mixings.; few organic coats surface features on faces of peds; few organic coats surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots
    1Bw1—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02957; dry when described;. few fine roots
    1Bw2—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02958; dry when described;. few fine roots
    1Bw3—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior sandy loam; 27 percent clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; friable; 0.1 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02959; dry when described;. very few fine roots; few fine faint 10YR56 mottles
    1BC—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior sandy loam; 25 percent clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog.; dry when described;. Not sampled.; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine faint 10YR56 mottles