IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tama
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IA065009
  • User Pedon ID: 83IA065009
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 105 - Deep Loess Soils - Glaciated Uplands - FY21 ProjLoamy-Silty Uplands (MN, IA, WI) DSP Project 2021-2024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0416
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 42.9697227
  • Std. Longitude: -91.7708359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 10.00
  • Township: 94N
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4SE1/4
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA065—Fayette
  • MLRA: 105—Upper Mississippi River Bedrock Controlled Uplands and Valleys
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ONA—Onalaska, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA065—Fayette County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria silty calcareous loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: valley side
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    41—102

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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

    8

    —

    —

    —

    —

    225

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00132864

    FAYETTE, IA US

    NOAA
    1Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02227. 10YR 4/3 mixings.
    1B1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02228. Common 10YR 3/2 mixings.
    1B2t—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02229. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; patchy - phpvsfiid 229992; patchy - phpvsfiid 229992
    1B3t—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; white (10YR 8/1), moist, skeletans on faces of peds and 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02230. few clay films surface features on vertical faces of peds
    1B4t—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P02231. few clay films surface features on faces of peds
    1BC—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Not sampled.; few coats surface features on faces of peds; few fine faint 10YR52 mottles; few fine distinct 7.5YR58 mottles
    1C—127 to 163 centimeters (50.0 to 64.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. few fine distinct 10YR52 mottles; few medium distinct 7.5YR58 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR56 mottles