IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969IA089001
  • User Pedon ID: S1969IA089001
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Colo_Pedons11-WAV_Colo_LAB&TUD_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X45-133-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75240
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 43.2649068
  • Std. Longitude: -92.4582106
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 98N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet north and 600 feet west of the southeast corner of NE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA089—Howard
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA089—Howard County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colo
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1963
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1963
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain on river valley
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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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    A1—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00087, ISU00088. light silty clay loam; slightly acid
    A2—38 to 79 centimeters (15.0 to 31.1 inches); black (N 2/0) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00089, ISU00090, ISU00091. light silty clay loam; neutral
    Bg—79 to 97 centimeters (31.1 to 38.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, coats on rock fragments; fine dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; nonflat unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00092. few, fine, firm, dark reddish-brown (2.5YR3/4) oxides and coatings on some pebbles; few small pebbles; neutral
    BC—97 to 119 centimeters (38.2 to 46.9 inches); black (N 2/0) fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00093. heavy fine sandy loam; neutral
    2Cg—119 to 147 centimeters (46.9 to 57.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loamy sand, sandy loam; massive; loose; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00094. loamy medium sand that is mixed with a small amount of very dark gray (10YR3/1) medium sandy loam; neutral
    2C—147 to 183 centimeters (57.9 to 72.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) stratified stratified loam to fine sandy loam; massive; friable; fragments. stratified loam and gravelly fine sandy loam; neutral