IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA171033
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA1710033
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0439
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58244
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 42.0636101
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5988922
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet south and 2200 feet west of the northeast corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA171—Tama
  • 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: IA171—Tama County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • 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 #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • 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 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02596. Continuous (10YR 2/2) coats and about 25-35% (10YR 4/4) mixings.
    1Bt1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02597. 30 to 48 cm sample number 86P2598.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220527; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220527
    1Bt2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak fine prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02599. Discontinuous (10YR 7/1) silt coats.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220528; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 220528
    1BC—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02600. Discontinuous (10YR 7/1) silt coats.; very few fine faint 10YR52 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231499; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 231499
    1C1—99 to 119 centimeters (39.0 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 26 percent clay; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. few fine faint 10YR52 mottles
    1C2—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior stratified silt loam to sandy loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog. few medium faint 10YR52 mottles