IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MONONA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959IA085008
  • User Pedon ID: S1959IA085008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959IA085008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1437
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35045
  • 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: 41.7483330
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7869415
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 80N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 460 feet north and 632 feet west of the southeast corner of the SW 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 #: 8
  • 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 - 10/20/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/1959 (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

    ANGE

    Andropogon gerardii

    big bluestem

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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

    18

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    270

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    A11—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; very slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11091. Post-Farmdale loess.
    A12—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to granular structure; friable; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A11092
    B1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) worm casts and 21 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A11093
    C1—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to fine granular structure; very friable; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A11094
    C2—74 to 102 centimeters (29.1 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to massive; very friable; 3 percent spherical worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A11095. Crumbles easily due to worm cast pellets; post-Farmdale loess.