IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: T10IA119022
  • User Pedon ID: S2010IA119022
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - T10IA119T006
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N1306
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43171
  • 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: 43.4391667
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4884167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 100N
  • Range: 48W
  • Section: 34
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA119—Lyon
  • MLRA: 102C—Loess Uplands
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-STA—Stanton, Nebraska
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA119—Lyon County, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Jackson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nora
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Trent silty clay loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—43

    43—56

    56—80

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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

    3

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    439

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 10N06217; moist when described; observed in push tube
    A—19 to 43 centimeters (7.5 to 16.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 10N06218; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bw—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06219; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bk—56 to 80 centimeters (22.0 to 31.5 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; 3 percent prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06220; moist when described; observed in push tube
    BC—80 to 140 centimeters (31.5 to 55.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses and 25 percent medium prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06221; moist when described; observed in push tube
    C1—140 to 200 centimeters (55.1 to 78.7 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 10N06222; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube
    C2—200 to 210 centimeters (78.7 to 82.7 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 60 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent.; wet, satiated when described; observed in push tube