IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IA1530042
  • User Pedon ID: 87IA1530042
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0363
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59658
  • 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: 41.8245909
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5592276
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 81N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: W 1/2, SW 1/2
  • Location Description: Elkhard Twp.
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA153—Polk

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1987 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01844
    1A2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01845
    1B1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01846
    1B2—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01847
    1B3—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01848
    1C1—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; loam; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    1C2—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; loam; massive; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog.