IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA069034
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA0690034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0352
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58157
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 42.6400046
  • Std. Longitude: -93.2809419
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 90N
  • Range: 21W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1540 feet south and 85 feet east of the northwest corner of NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA069—Franklin
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA069—Franklin County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ROD and EHH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1985
  • 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: 3/1/1985 (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
    • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02090
    1Bw1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02091
    1Bw2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02092
    1Bw3—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02093
    1Bw4—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02094
    1C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog.