IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liscomb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA171012
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA1710012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0456
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56172
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.1386108
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5763855
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 85N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 350 feet north and 1350 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 Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • 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 - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till derived from mixed-calcareous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • 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—48

    48—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

    7

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02216
    A—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 15 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02217. few organic coats surface features on faces of peds
    AB—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02218. Some mixing of 10YR 4/3 in lower part.
    Bw1—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine iron concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02219. few fine iron concretions concentrations
    Bw2—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior sandy clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine iron concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02220. few fine iron concretions concentrations
    Bw3—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak fine prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02221. few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine faint 10YR52 mottles
    BC—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Not sampled.; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine faint 10YR52 mottles; few fine faint 10YR56 mottles
    C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; massive; firm; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Not sampled.; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few soft masses of lime concentrations; few medium faint 10YR52 mottles; few fine faint 10YR56 mottles