IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): NAPIER
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958IA085006
  • User Pedon ID: S1958IA085006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958IA085006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1440
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35048
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 41.7344437
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7883301
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 80N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 425 feet east and 635 feet north of the southwest corner of the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA085—Harrison
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA085—Harrison County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. H. Simonson and R. B. Daniels.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - NAPIER
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Napier
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    JUGLA

    POA

    QUERC

    RIMO2

    ULMUS

    Juglans

    Poa

    Quercus

    Ribes montigenum

    Ulmus

    walnut

    bluegrass

    oak

    gooseberry currant

    elm

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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

    7

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    A11—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11122. Leached Recent alluvium.
    A12—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 fine roots top of horizon and 3.0 roots; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A11123
    B1—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to medium granular structure; friable; coats on faces of peds; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11124. continuous - phpvsfiid 196325; continuous - phpvsfiid 196325
    B2—74 to 94 centimeters (29.1 to 37.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; weak and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; coats on faces of peds; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11125. continuous - phpvsfiid 196326; continuous - phpvsfiid 196326
    B3—94 to 135 centimeters (37.0 to 53.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint coats on faces of peds; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11126
    C1—135 to 160 centimeters (53.1 to 63.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to massive; friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A11127
    C2—160 to 185 centimeters (63.0 to 72.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A11128
    C3—185 centimeters (72.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) mottles; massive; friable; 21 percent white (10YR 8/1) carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A11129. Alluvium.