IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA083013
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA0830013
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Tama_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0351
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56067
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: -93.1202011
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 86N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 162 feet northeast and 581 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 Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • PSC - 46 to 97 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 - 11/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed-calcareous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • 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—30

    46—107

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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

    2

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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01693. many roots
    1A—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 5.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01694. many roots
    1BA—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 roots; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01695. many roots
    1Bt1—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 roots; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01696. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; many roots
    1Bt2—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 roots; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01697. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; many roots
    1C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; massive; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Not sampled.