IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Napier
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013IA133001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013IA133001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 42.1211470
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7506410
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA133—Monona
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ATL—Atlantic, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA133—Monona County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Daniel J. Pulido
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/8/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    A1—21 to 60 centimeters (8.3 to 23.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    A2—60 to 102 centimeters (23.6 to 40.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    A3—102 to 132 centimeters (40.2 to 52.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    A4—132 to 158 centimeters (52.0 to 62.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2 percent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bw—158 to 200 centimeters (62.2 to 78.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in push tube