IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MONONA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959IA085002
  • User Pedon ID: S1959IA085002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959IA085002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1432
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35040
  • 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: 41.7408333
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7761078
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 80N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 948 feet east and 360 feet north of the southwest corner of the SW 1/4 of the NE 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MONONA
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monona
  • Classificaton Date - 9/29/1959
  • 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: 9/29/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    POA

    QUERC

    ULMUS

    Poa

    Quercus

    Ulmus

    bluegrass

    oak

    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

    25

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    90

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    O2—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A11054. Partially decayed leaves and twigs.
    A1—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A11055. Structure appears to be predominantly casts of earthworms and other fauna; leached post-Farmdale loess.
    B2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21 percent worm casts and 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A11056. Leached matrix.
    B3—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A11057
    C1—41 to 74 centimeters (16.1 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak subangular blocky, and massive; friable; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A11058. Sampled 18 to 28 inches.
    C2—74 to 105 centimeters (29.1 to 41.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine mottles; massive; friable; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A11059. Post-Farmdale loess.