IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IA1530041
  • User Pedon ID: 87IA1530041
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0362
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59657
  • 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: 41.8240162
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5592226
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 81N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: W 1/2, SW 1/2
  • Location Description: Elkhard Twp.
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA153—Polk

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • 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 - 11/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1987 (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
    • 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

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    90

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    1Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01839
    1B1—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01840
    1Bw2—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01841
    1Bw3—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01842
    1C1—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01843. common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles
    1C2—91 to 114 centimeters (35.8 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. common medium distinct 10YR62 mottles
    1C3—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. few fine distinct 10YR62 mottles