IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969IA045002
  • User Pedon ID: S1969IA045002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969IA045002
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Tama_PedonsMLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 Proj
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X23-120-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75069
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 41.8787075
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4714914
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 82N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet south and 150 feet west of the northeast corner SE1/4
  • Location Description: or equal distance between 4 and 5 telephone pole on west side of
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA045—Clinton
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA045—Clinton County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.0B
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • PSC - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2022
  • Classifier - Shaunna Repking
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/1969
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Agronomic Feature - close grown annual crop, or crop-fallow
  • Current Crop - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: leached loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/11/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    BROMU

    MEDIC

    Bromus

    Medicago

    brome

    alfalfa

    grass/grasslike

    forb

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    albic horizon

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

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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

    1

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    —

    —

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    899

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    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00131635

    CLINTON NUMBER 1, IA US

    NOAA
    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU00067
    A—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) rubbed silt loam; weak fine granular, and moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # ISU00068
    E—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00069
    EB—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00070
    Bt1—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films and 6/1 6/1 coats; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00071. patchy - phpvsfiid 1361916; patchy - phpvsfiid 1361916
    Bt2—84 to 107 centimeters (33.1 to 42.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00072. patchy - phpvsfiid 1361918; patchy - phpvsfiid 1361918
    BC1—107 to 147 centimeters (42.1 to 57.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic structure; friable; clay films; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00074, ISU00073
    BC2—147 to 196 centimeters (57.9 to 77.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; clay films; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # ISU00075
    C—196 to 229 centimeters (77.2 to 90.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; clay films; fragments. Lab sample # ISU00076