IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA0630031
  • User Pedon ID: S1985IA0630031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0344
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58149
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 43.3997356
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8813689
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 99N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1285 feet W and 160 feet N of SE corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA063—Emmet
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA063—Emmet County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Jones
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2013
  • Classifier - C. Johnson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Hapludolls
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1985 (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
    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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    1A p—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior and black (10YR 2/1) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; clay loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02045. A few coats of 3/3 in lower part.; common fine roots
    1A—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; clay loam; weak fine and medium granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02046. common fine roots
    1AB—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02047. common fine roots
    1B w1—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and 10YR 4/8 (10YR 4/8) interior clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint , moist, clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02048. few clay films surface features; few fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1146088; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1146088
    1B w2—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, coats and 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, oxide coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02049. few coats surface features; few oxide coats surface features; few fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1146089; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1146089
    1BC—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, oxide coats; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 86P02050. Few 3/2 fills in pores.; few oxide coats surface features; few fine roots; few fine faint 10YR52 mottles
    1C—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine faint mottles; massive; friable; 15 percent faint black (10YR 2/1), moist, oxide coats; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Common fine and medium (10YR 5/2) CaCO3 in masses.; few oxide coats surface features; few fine faint 7.5YR58 mottles