IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liscomb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA171011
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA1710011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0455
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56171
  • 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: 42.1383324
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5763855
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 85N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet north and 1325 feet west of the southwest corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA171—Tama
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA171—Tama County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Humudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Liscomb
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/12/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Liscomb
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed-calcareous
  • 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: 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—18

    18—94

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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

    7

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02211
    Bw1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02212. Coats are in upper part.; few organic coats surface features on faces of peds
    Bw2—30 to 56 centimeters (11.8 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02213
    Bw3—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint and 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine iron concretions; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02214. few fine iron concretions concentrations; few fine faint 10YR56 mottles; few fine faint 10YR52 mottles
    BC—76 to 94 centimeters (29.9 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium faint and 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 1 percent fine iron concretions; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P02215. few fine iron concretions concentrations; common medium faint 10YR56 mottles; common medium faint 10YR52 mottles
    C—94 to 145 centimeters (37.0 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; massive; firm; 1 percent fine iron concretions; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; few fine iron concretions concentrations; common medium distinct 7.5YR58 mottles