IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012IA155001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012IA155001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012IA155001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N0013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46304
  • 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: 41.4152667
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8602833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA155—Pottawattamie
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA155—Pottawattamie County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Pulido, J. Hammerly, S. Monteith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monona
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/21/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/21/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CARYA

    FRPE

    POPUL

    QUMA2

    RUIDI

    Carya

    Fraxinus pennsylvanica

    Populus

    Quercus macrocarpa

    Rubus idaeus ssp. idaeus

    hybrid hickory

    green ash

    cottonwood

    bur oak

    American red raspberry

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—30

    30—99

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    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

    22

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    45

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00052; observed in pit, small
    AB—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); 80 percent black (10YR 2/1) and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N00053; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—30 to 52 centimeters (11.8 to 20.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent black (10YR 2/1) organic stains; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00054; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—52 to 79 centimeters (20.5 to 31.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00055; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N00056; observed in pit, small
    BC—99 to 105 centimeters (39.0 to 41.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 12N00057; observed in pit, small