IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1958IA085008
  • User Pedon ID: S1958IA085008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1958IA085008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0163
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32692
  • 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: 41.6644440
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8697205
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 79N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 370 feet east of the northwest corner of the NE 1/4 of the SE 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, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Monona
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monona
  • Classificaton Date - 10/8/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/8/1958 (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

    FRAXI

    JUGLA

    POA

    QUERC

    RIMO2

    ULMUS

    Fraxinus

    Juglans

    Poa

    Quercus

    Ribes montigenum

    Ulmus

    ash

    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

    15

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    45

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed, dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A01201. Leached post-Farmdale loess.
    B2—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and black (10YR 2/1) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A01202
    B3—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A01203
    C1—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 5/3) crushed silt loam; massive parts to weak fine subangular blocky; friable; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A01204. Leached.
    C2—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 1 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) mottles; friable; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A01205. Post-Farmdale loess.