IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IA083002
  • User Pedon ID: 87IA083002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0614
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60732
  • 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: 42.4210960
  • Std. Longitude: -93.1712981
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 22
  • Location Description: To center of plot - 1177 feet W of center and 680 feet N of road fence
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA083—Hardin
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA083—Hardin County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03203
    BA—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03204
    Bw1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03205
    Bw2—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03206
    Bw3—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent faint , moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03207. very few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores
    Bw4—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03208
    C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P03209