IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA1470031
  • User Pedon ID: S1985IA1470031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0477
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58282
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 43.0080566
  • Std. Longitude: -94.7413864
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 33W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1140 feet W and 557 feet S of NE corner
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA147—Palo Alto
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • 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
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • 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, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior and dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02841
    1A—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P02842. Some (10YR 4/3) worm casts.; few fine roots
    1B w1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 86P02843. 43 to 58 cm sample number 86P2844.; few fine roots
    1B w2—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 86P02845. Sampled to 74 cm.; few fine roots
    1BC—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P02846. Common CaCO3 in streaks and nodules. Actual sample depth 74 to 89 cm.; few fine roots
    1C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) interior loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium mottles; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent faint black (10YR 2/1), moist, oxide coats and 37 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, oxide coats; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Common fine to medium streaks and nodules of CaCO3 (2.5Y 5/2), in place about 4% of matrix.; common oxide coats surface features; few oxide coats surface features; common fine and medium 7.5YR56 mottles