IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA0810024
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA0810024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0362
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58167
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 43.2420179
  • Std. Longitude: -93.6878121
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 97N
  • Range: 24W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet E and 162 feet N of the SW corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA081—Hancock
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard Lensch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; loam; 29 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02147. Split for sampling 0 to 13 sample number 86P2147, 13 to 23 cm sample number 86P2148.; few fine roots
    1AB—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior loam; 29 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02149. Few (10YR 4/3) mixings.; few coats surface features; few fine roots
    1Bw1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, coats and 15 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02150. Split for sampling 38 to 51 cm sample number 86P2150, 51 to 61 cm sample number 86P2151.; few coats surface features; few coats surface features; few fine roots
    1C—61 to 107 centimeters (24.0 to 42.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior loam; 26 percent clay; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P02152. Few fine shale fragments. Split for sampling 61 to 76 cm sample number 86P2152, 76 to 91 cm sample number 86P2153, 91 to 107 cm sample number 86P2154.; few fine faint 2.5Y52 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR54 mottles