IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): IDA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959IA085007
  • User Pedon ID: S1959IA085007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959IA085007
  • User Site Association ID: NC-ATL_Ida_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1410
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35018
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 41.7483330
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7863922
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 80N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 460 feet north and 495 feet west of the southeast corner of the SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA085—Harrison
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA085—Harrison County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. H. Simonson and R. B. Daniels.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - IDA
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ida
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANGE

    Andropogon gerardii

    big bluestem

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    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

    25

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    270

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A10835. Post-Farmdale loess.
    AC—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 3 percent brown (10YR 5/3) mottles; weak medium subangular blocky parts to granular structure; very friable; 21 percent worm casts and 3 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) worm casts; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A10836
    C1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 3 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine and 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine mottles; massive; very friable; 3 percent brown (10YR 4/3) worm casts; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A10837
    C2—51 to 102 centimeters (20.1 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; 0.5 roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 3 percent worm casts and 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A10838. Post-Farmdale loess.