IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Liscomb
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987IA171051
  • User Pedon ID: 87IA1710051
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0380
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59675
  • 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: 42.0499992
  • Std. Longitude: -92.5666656
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 84N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet north and 175 feet east of the center
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA171—Tama
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA171—Tama County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Liscomb
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/12/2013
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Liscomb
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1987 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—33

    33—124

    —36—

    —73—
    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

    12

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01946
    AB—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01947. Some (10YR 4/4) in lower part.
    Bw1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01948
    Bw2—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01949
    Bw3—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; weak fine prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, coats on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01950. Sand lense at 94 to 102 cm.
    BC—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Few fine black oxides.; common fine faint 10YR56 mottles
    C—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct mottles; massive; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog. Few fine red and black oxides.; few fine distinct 10YR52 mottles