IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MONONA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958IA085007
  • User Pedon ID: S1958IA085007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958IA085007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1429
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35037
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 41.6777763
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8775024
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 79N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 475 feet south and 530 feet west of the northeast corner of the SE 1/4 of the SW 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 Typic Hapludolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MONONA
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monona
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    QUERC

    RHUS

    RIMO2

    ULMUS

    Juglans

    Quercus

    Rhus

    Ribes montigenum

    Ulmus

    walnut

    oak

    sumac

    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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    45

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    A11—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A11033. Leached post-Farmdale loess.
    A12—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11034. Bleached silt grain coatings on peds fairly prominent when dry.
    B2—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11035
    B3—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11036
    C1—66 to 180 centimeters (26.0 to 70.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) faint mottles; massive; friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A11037. Sampled 34 to 52 inches.
    C2—180 to 213 centimeters (70.9 to 83.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) faint mottles; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A11038. Post-Farmdale loess.