IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ackmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013IA181001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013IA181001
  • User Site Association ID: 11-WAV_Ackmore_Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N97274
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73195
  • 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: 41.4851410
  • Std. Longitude: -93.4591530
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: M163D2—Fayette silt loam, till plain, 9 to 14 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Iowa
  • County: IA181—Warren
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ATL—Atlantic, Iowa
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IA181—Warren County, Iowa
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41093-D4—Hartford, Iowa

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Hammerly, John
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Mollic Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ackmore
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Mollic Fluvaquents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/2013
  • Classifier - Hammerly, John
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty human-transported material over fine-silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

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    253.9

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    A—0 to 21 centimeters (0.0 to 8.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (10YR 4/3), very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-20-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N12273; observed in push tube
    C1—21 to 33 centimeters (8.3 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-20-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N12274; observed in push tube
    C2—33 to 52 centimeters (13.0 to 20.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 4/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-20-76 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N12275; observed in push tube
    C3—52 to 88 centimeters (20.5 to 34.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, masses of reduced iron and 3 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N12276; observed in push tube
    Ab1—88 to 147 centimeters (34.6 to 57.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; 3 percent very fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N12277; observed in push tube
    Ab2—147 to 175 centimeters (57.9 to 68.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 2 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N12278; observed in push tube
    Ab3—175 to 200 centimeters (68.9 to 78.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; structureless massive; friable; 3 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 13N12279; observed in push tube