IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Olmitz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956IA001004
  • User Pedon ID: S1956IA001004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1443
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35051
  • Print Date: 9/17/2024

    • 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: 41.3791656
  • Std. Longitude: -94.4558334
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 76N
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 210 feet east and 400 feet south of the northwest corner of northwest quarter of northwest quarter of southeast quarter
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA001—Adair
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA001—Adair County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41094-C4—Greenfield, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. B. Daniels and G. H. Simonson.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Olmitz
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Olmitz
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/30/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    A1p—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam, silty clay loam; subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A11148
    A12—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and black (10YR 2/1) crushed, dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11149
    AB—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and black (10YR 2/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; friable; coats on faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11150. Identification of the coatings as clay skins is questionable.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 186257; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 186257
    B21—69 to 109 centimeters (27.2 to 42.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; friable; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11151. Discontinuous clay skins on the subangular blocky peds in the interior of the prisms.; continuous - phpvsfiid 186258; continuous - phpvsfiid 186258
    B22—109 to 137 centimeters (42.9 to 53.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; 1 percent light gray (10YR 7/1) fine faint mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A11152. Thin discontinuous skins on the subangular blocky peds in the interior of the prisms.; continuous - phpvsfiid 186259; continuous - phpvsfiid 186259
    B3—137 to 150 centimeters (53.9 to 59.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A11153. Maximum diameter of gravel fragments is 1 inch.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 186260; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 186260
    D1—150 to 198 centimeters (59.1 to 78.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; 3 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) medium mottles; massive; firm; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A11154. Sampled 59 to 68 inches.
    D2—198 to 259 centimeters (78.0 to 102.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) stony clay, stony sand, sandy clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) mottles; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A11155. Kansan till
    D3—259 centimeters (102.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; firm; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A11156. A stone line separates the D2 layer from the underlying Kansan till.