IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liscomb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA171044
  • User Pedon ID: 85IA1710044
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0443
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58248
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 42.0397224
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5930557
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1450 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 Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Liscomb
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • 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
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—36

    36—109

    —36—

    —73—
    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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, coats; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02615. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114882; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114882
    AB—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02616. Some (10YR 4/3) in lower part.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114883; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114883
    Bw1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) interior loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02617. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114884; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114884
    Bw2—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) interior loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02618. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114885; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1114885
    BC—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02619. Discontinuous (10YR 4/3) coats on prisms. Few coarse (2.5YR 4/6) oxides.
    C1—109 to 127 centimeters (42.9 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; 26 percent clay; massive; firm; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P02619. Few fine red oxides.
    C2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 25 percent clay; massive; firm; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Few fine red oxides.; few fine lime concretions concentrations