IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984IA105034
  • User Pedon ID: S1984IA105034
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984IA105034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - ISU2015
  • Lab Pedon # - X53-119-1
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74759
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 42.1642863
  • Std. Longitude: -91.1472984
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 85N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet south and 900 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA105—Jones
  • MLRA: 104—Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: 11—Indianapolis, IN
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-WAV—Waverly, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA105—Jones County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Unknown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1984
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/1984
  • Classifier - Unknown
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: not reviewed
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): A scan of the original data (i.e. field sheet(s), edits, manuscripts, notes, and other associated data) is available in the scans archive.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Unknown
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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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

    2

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; few fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01470
    A1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; few fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01471
    A2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; few fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01472
    BA—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01473
    Btg1—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01474
    Btg2—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01475
    Btg3—86 to 107 centimeters (33.9 to 42.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fine manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01476. few fine dark soft accumulations of manganese oxide; medium acid
    BCg—107 to 127 centimeters (42.1 to 50.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fine manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # ISU01477. common fine dark soft accumulations of manganese oxide; slightly acid
    Cg—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silt loam; massive; friable; fine manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # ISU01478. common fine dark soft accumulations of manganese oxide; neutral