IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mt. Carroll
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1972IA045003
  • User Pedon ID: S1972IA045003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X23-662-2
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75109
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 41.8661685
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8797110
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 82N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 218 feet north and 71 feet west of the southeast corner NE1/4
  • Location Description: 38ft. West of road fence
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA045—Clinton
  • 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: IA045—Clinton County, Iowa
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wayne Frederick, Larry Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC6.0B
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mt. Carroll
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/1972
  • Classifier - ADF
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Port Byron
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/16/1972
  • Classifier - ADF
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/16/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Wayne D Frederick
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    11

    225

    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; cloddy structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00340
    AB—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00341
    Bt—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00343
    BC—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00344
    C1—86 to 127 centimeters (33.9 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00345. with vertical cleavage; 1/2" sandy lense @40", 1/4" sandy lense @44"
    C2—127 to 191 centimeters (50.0 to 75.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments. 1/2" sandy lense @50''