IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ALBATON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970IA133005
  • User Pedon ID: S1970IA133005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1475
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35083
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 42.0277786
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1938858
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 83N
  • Range: 46W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet N and 40 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: about 5 miles W of Onawa, IA.
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA133—Monona
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA133—Monona County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.R. Culver, C.S. Fisher, J.R. Worster, and F.F. Riecken
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Very-fine, montmorillonitic (calcareous), mesic Vertic Fluvaquents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - ALBATON
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Albaton
  • Classificaton Date - 10/28/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/28/1970 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Setting and Climate
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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay; moderate very fine angular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A11471. few spots of black to very dark gray decayed organic matter.
    C1g—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine faint mottles; strong very fine and fine angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A11472. structure appears to be recent deposition as structure is approaching rock structure.
    C2g—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and very pale brown (10YR 7/3) silty clay; massive parts to weak very fine angular blocky, and weak very fine subangular blocky; firm; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A11473. very pale brown coatings on horizontal plates; few thin bands or strata of dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4); few snail shells and fragments of small snail shells.
    C3g—74 to 142 centimeters (29.1 to 55.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay; 10 percent gray (5Y 5/1) fine and medium distinct and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine and medium prominent mottles; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A11474. 40A11475.
    C4g—142 to 175 centimeters (55.9 to 68.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay; 1 percent gray (5Y 5/1) fine distinct mottles; massive; firm; 15 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) coats in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A11476. dark grayish brown (5Y 4/2) shiny surfaces of slickensides, few very pale brown (10YR 7/3) coatings on slickenside surfaces that are strongly effervescent.