IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA171021
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA1710021
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Tama_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0458
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56174
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024
  • 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: 42.1416664
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5808334
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 85N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1280 feet south and 300 feet east of the center
  • 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-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • PSC - 28 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed-calcareous and/or till 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

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—97

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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

    0

    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02228
    1AB—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02229
    1Bt1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02230. continuous - phpvsfiid 218624; continuous - phpvsfiid 218624
    1Bt2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, skeletans on faces of peds and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02231. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218625; continuous - phpvsfiid 230787; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 218625; continuous - phpvsfiid 230787
    1Bt3—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, skeletans on faces of peds and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02232. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine faint 10YR52 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 230788; continuous - phpvsfiid 230789; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 230788; continuous - phpvsfiid 230789
    1BC—97 to 114 centimeters (38.2 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, skeletans on faces of peds and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Not sampled.; few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine faint 10YR52 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 230790; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 230791; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 230790; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 230791
    1C1—114 to 130 centimeters (44.9 to 51.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described;. Not sampled.; few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine faint 10YR52 mottles
    2C2—130 to 142 centimeters (51.2 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; massive; firm; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations