IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Killduff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA083012
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA0830012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0350
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56066
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 42.2525063
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1204834
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 86N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 189 feet northeast and 752 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA083—Hardin
  • 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: IA083—Hardin County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ROD & EHH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Killduff
  • PSC - 30 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • 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: 11/1/1985 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    30—76

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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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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01688. common roots
    1BA—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01689. common roots
    1Bt1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01690. common roots
    1Bt2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01691. common roots
    1BC—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01692. common roots
    1C—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; massive; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; few fine distinct 10YR52 mottles