IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Exira
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA1550022
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA1550022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0556
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56822
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 41.2694435
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2472229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: L. Bates farm.
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA155—Pottawattamie

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C Branham
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Exira
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Exira
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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: 11/1/1984 (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—66

    51—122

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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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    135

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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02830; moist when described;
    1A2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02831; moist when described;. Mixings of 10YR 3/3.
    1A3—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02832; moist when described;
    1Bw1—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent brown (10YR 4/3) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02833; moist when described;. few fine faint 10YR43 mottles
    1Bw2—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02834; moist when described;. few iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common fine distinct 2.5Y52 mottles
    1Bw3—86 to 122 centimeters (33.9 to 48.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02835; moist when described;. few iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common fine distinct 10YR44 mottles
    1C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog.; moist when described;. Not sampled.; common fine distinct 2.5Y52 mottles