IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959IA041006
  • User Pedon ID: S1959IA041006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1455
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35063
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • 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: 43.0149994
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2291641
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 350 yards south and 380 feet east of the northwest corner of SW1/4
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA041—Clay
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA041—Clay County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. J. Carlisle and R. I. Turner.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sac
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sac
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/12/1959 (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
    • 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine mottles; massive parts to weak fine granular, and subangular blocky; friable; 10 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, coats on sand and gravel; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A11273. Borderline to silty clay loam.
    A3—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and black (10YR 2/1) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11274
    B1—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); 60 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and 40 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11275
    B21—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A11276. Very dark gray 3 to 4 mm. thick tongues in the upper part, apparently due to worm activity; faces shiny but not smooth.
    IIB22—64 to 71 centimeters (25.2 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium and coarse tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11277. Numerous gravels.
    IIB23—71 to 84 centimeters (28.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; 32 percent clay; 1 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine faint mottles; weak prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, on rock fragments and 75 percent prominent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, on faces of peds; 1 percent weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions; 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A11278. Patches are smooth and shiny; few very fine oxide dendrites. Concretions located in lower part.
    IIB3—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; 31 percent clay; 3 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine faint mottles; weak and moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, on faces of peds and 10 percent carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 3 percent fine weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11279. Shiny patches barely visible in cross section on ped faces look like clay films; few very fine dark oxide concretions.; continuous - phpvsfiid 196341; patchy - phpvsfiid 196342; continuous - phpvsfiid 196341; patchy - phpvsfiid 196342
    IIC—119 to 183 centimeters (46.9 to 72.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; 30 percent clay; 3 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) fine faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks and 10 percent prominent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, on faces of peds; 1 percent fine weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A11280. Common soft and hard oxide concretions.; continuous - phpvsfiid 196344; continuous - phpvsfiid 196344