IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA0630011
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA0630011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0463
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56179
  • 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: 43.4222221
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9000015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 99N
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 513 feet S and 85 feet W of NE corner of SE 1/4
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA063—Emmet

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—13

    13—69

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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

    13

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    225

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    1Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and brown (10YR 4/3), dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02257. A few pockets of 10YR 4/4 and 10YR 5/4.; few fine roots
    1Bw1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 medium tubular pores; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02258. few fine roots
    1Bw2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 27 percent clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 1 percent fine iron concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02259. few fine iron concretions concentrations; few fine roots; few fine distinct 7.5YR58 mottles
    1Bw2—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 27 percent clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 1 percent fine iron concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02260. few fine iron concretions concentrations; few fine roots; few fine distinct 7.5YR58 mottles
    1Bw3—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; 23 percent clay; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium continuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine iron concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02261. few fine iron concretions concentrations; few fine roots; common medium distinct 7.5YR58 mottles
    1C—69 to 152 centimeters (27.2 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 26 percent clay; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine and medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 37 percent , moist, black stains on horizontal faces of peds; 11 percent fine and medium iron concretions; 11 percent medium carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02262. Sampled to 84cm. Roots end at 100cm. Few black oxides.; common medium lime nodules concentrations; common fine and medium iron concretions concentrations; common black stains surface features on horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots; common fine and medium distinct 7.5YR58 mottles