IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA0810013
  • User Pedon ID: 84IA0810013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0579
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56845
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 43.0285438
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5363138
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 95N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 230 feet E and 1030 feet S of NW corner SW 1/4
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA081—Hancock

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. A. Lensch
  • 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 - 1/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1984 (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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—36

    23—79

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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

    17

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    1Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; sandy loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02968; dry when described;. few fine roots
    1Ap—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; sandy loam; 23 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02969; dry when described;. few fine roots
    1AB—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; sandy loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; black (10YR 2/1) organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02970; dry when described;. few fine and medium roots
    1Bw1—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior sandy loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; very dark brown (10YR 2/2) organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P02971; dry when described;. few fine roots
    1Bw2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior sandy loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; 15 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P02972; dry when described;. few organic coats surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots
    1Bw2—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior sandy loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P02973; dry when described;. few fine roots
    1C—79 to 152 centimeters (31.1 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) interior sandy loam; 23 percent clay; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 11 percent lime masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog.; dry when described;. Not sampled.; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine faint 2.5Y52 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR56 mottles