IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bassett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999IA037001
  • User Pedon ID: S1999IA037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0153
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11661
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 42.9965000
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5258889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 171B—Bassett loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA037—Chickasaw
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LDC, JAF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bassett
  • Classificaton Date - 6/4/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bassett
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1999
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—36

    36—122

    13—36—45

    71—86—160
    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

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    E—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) loam; moderate thin platy structure; friable; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 101115; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 101115
    2Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) loam; 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Stone Line at 36 cm sand.
    2Bt2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay loam; 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 101116; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 101116
    2Bt3—69 to 122 centimeters (27.2 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay loam; 20 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay films in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent fine and medium irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) masses of dark accumulation throughout; 25 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate threads throughout and 5 percent fine and medium irregular noncoherent cemented very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay bodies throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 101114; continuous - phpvsfiid 101114
    2BC—122 to 170 centimeters (48.0 to 66.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; firm; 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1) masses of dark accumulation throughout; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 101082; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 101082
    2C—170 to 200 centimeters (66.9 to 78.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; massive; firm; 20 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate threads throughout; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence.