IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarion
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IA1530011
  • User Pedon ID: S1985IA1530011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0362
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56078
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 41.6477446
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4444689
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 79N
  • Range: 22W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1270 feet N and 115 feet E of SW corner
  • Location Description: D. Gibson farm.
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA153—Polk
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ROD & EHH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2013
  • Classifier - C. Johnson
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarion
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—56

    56—97

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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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    45

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    1A p—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01728. common roots
    1A 1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01729. common roots
    1A 2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01730. common roots
    1B w1—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P01731. common roots
    1B w2—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P01732. common roots
    1C 1—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; massive; friable; 2.5 roots; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Not sampled.; common roots
    1C 2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) loam; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Not sampled.