IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Exira
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA1550023
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA1550023
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0557
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56823
  • 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
  • Township: 75N
  • Range: 38W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 330 feet S and 342 feet E of NW corner
  • 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: taxadjunct
  • 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 - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • 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—13

    13—91

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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

    6

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    135

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    1Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 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 # 85P02836. Mixings of 10YR 4/3.
    1Bw1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02837. Mixings of 10YR 3/3.
    1Bw2—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02838. few fine distinct 2.5Y52 mottles
    1Bw3—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02839. common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; common fine distinct 2.5Y52 mottles
    1Bw3—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02840. common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; common fine distinct 2.5Y52 mottles
    1Bw3—76 to 91 centimeters (29.9 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and 11 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02841. common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; common fine distinct 2.5Y52 mottles
    1C1—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Not sampled.
    1C2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; few medium distinct 10YR46 mottles