IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA1530021
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA1530021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0394
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58199
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 41.8508629
  • Std. Longitude: -93.6937939
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 81N
  • Range: 24W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 4434 feet W and 525 feet N of SE corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA153—Polk
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Diderikson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • 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
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1985 (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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02327
    1BA—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02328
    1Bw1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02329
    1Bw2—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02330
    1BC—91 to 122 centimeters (35.8 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02331
    1C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog.