IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liscomb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA171043
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA1710043
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0442
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58247
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: -92.5930557
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1420 feet north and 540 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—15

    15—74

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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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    180

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02611. About 30% (10YR 4/3) mixing.
    Bw1—15 to 53 centimeters (5.9 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 26 percent clay; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02612. common fine faint 10YR56 mottles; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114896; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114896
    Bw2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02613. Few fine red oxides.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114897; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114897
    C—74 to 122 centimeters (29.1 to 48.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior sandy loam; 14 percent clay; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P02614. Few fine red oxides; few secondary lime concretions.; common fine faint 10YR56 mottles