IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ackmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012IA155003
  • User Pedon ID: S2012IA155003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0544
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74320
  • 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: 41.4509219
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2859065
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 11B—Ackmore-Colo-Judson complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA155—Pottawattamie
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ATL—Atlantic, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA155—Pottawattamie County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41095-D3—Avoca, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Pulido, Dan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Mollic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ackmore
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Mollic Fluvaquents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/30/2012
  • Classifier - Pulido, Dan
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/30/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: MLRA SSO 11-ATL
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02530; observed in push tube
    C—12 to 52 centimeters (4.7 to 20.5 inches); 51 percent black (10YR 2/1) broken face and 49 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02531; observed in push tube
    Ab—52 to 80 centimeters (20.5 to 31.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02532; observed in push tube
    Btb1—80 to 115 centimeters (31.5 to 45.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 6 percent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02533; observed in push tube
    Btb2—115 to 136 centimeters (45.3 to 53.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) broken face silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 4 percent clay films; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02534; observed in push tube
    Btb3—136 to 167 centimeters (53.5 to 65.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 1 percent clay films; 3 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 8 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02535; observed in push tube
    BC—167 to 203 centimeters (65.7 to 79.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 5 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 6 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 13N02536; observed in push tube