IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cresken
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IA055204
  • User Pedon ID: S1981IA055204
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X28-883-2B
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 75151
  • 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: 42.3840790
  • Std. Longitude: -91.5373688
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 88N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 70 feet North and 595 feet east of the SW corner of
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA055—Delaware
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA055—Delaware County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42091-D5—Masonville, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cresken
  • Classificaton Date - 8/17/2010
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cresken
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/2010
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slightly weathered, fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: 2 upland
  • Landform: 1 ridge
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/7/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; 26 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00932; moist when described; observed in push tube
    A—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) clay loam; 24 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00933
    BA—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; 36 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00934. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1322245; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1322245
    Bw—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; 55 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00935. thin sand wedge at 64 to 69 cm
    2Bt1—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 43 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 20 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 60 percent prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00936. continuous - phpvsfiid 1322247; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1322246; continuous - phpvsfiid 1322247; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1322246
    2Bt2—89 to 107 centimeters (35.0 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 40 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 20 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 45 percent distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00937. continuous - phpvsfiid 1322250; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1322249; continuous - phpvsfiid 1322250; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1322249
    2Bt3—107 to 119 centimeters (42.1 to 46.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 42 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; very firm; 20 percent prominent light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 30 percent prominent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU00938. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1322252; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1322253; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1322252; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1322253
    2C—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; 41 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 28 percent clay; structureless massive; very firm; 1 percent fine prominent spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout and 1 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8. Lab sample # ISU00939