IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liscomb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA171042
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA1710042
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0441
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58246
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.0397224
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5927811
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet north and 500 feet west of the southeast 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-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Humudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Liscomb
  • Classificaton Date - 2/12/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Liscomb
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landscape: upland
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    18—84

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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

    9

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02606. About 20% (10YR 4/3) mixings.
    Bw1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02607. Few common red oxides.
    Bw2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak fine prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02608
    BC—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, coats; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02609. Few fine red oxides; few seocndary lime threads and concretions.
    C—84 to 132 centimeters (33.1 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 25 percent clay; massive; firm; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P02610. Few coarse red oxides; common lime concretions.