Nebraska Soils Field Trip - Virginia Tech

4th IUSS Soil Classification Conference Field Tour Guidebook
PEDON DESCRIPTION
Print Date: 03/29/2012 Country: USA
Description Date: 10/21/2011 State: Iowa
Describer: D. Pulido, J. Hammerly, S. Monteith County: Pottawattamie
Site ID: S12IA155001 MLRA: 107B -- Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
Site Note: Soil Survey Area: IA155 -- Pottawattamie County,
Iowa
Pedon ID: S12IA155001 Map Unit: 10G—Monona silt loam, 30 to 40 percent
slopes
Pedon Note: Quad Name:
Lab Source ID: SSL
Lab Pedon #: 12N0013 Legal Description:
Soil Name as Described/Sampled: Monona Latitude: 41 degrees 24 minutes 54.96 seconds
north
Soil Name as Correlated: Longitude: 95 degrees 51 minutes 37.02 seconds
west
Classification: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive,
mesic Typic Hapludolls
Datum:
Pedon Type: UTM Zone:
Pedon Purpose: UTM Easting:
Taxon Kind: UTM Northing:
Associated Soils:
Physiographic Division: Interior Plains Primary Earth Cover: Tree cover
Physiographic Province: Central Lowland
Province
Secondary Earth Cover: Hardwoods
Physiographic Section: Dissected till plains Existing Vegetation: bur oak, cottonwood, green
ash, hickory, raspberry
State Physiographic Area: Parent Material: loess
Local Physiographic Area:
Geomorphic Setting: on backslope of side slope
Bedrock Kind:
of upland
on backslope of side slope of hill
Bedrock Depth:
Upslope Shape: concave Bedrock Hardness:
Cross Slope Shape: linear Bedrock Fracture Interval:
Particle Size Control Section: 25 to 100 cm. Surface Fragments:
Description origin: NASIS Description database: NSSL
Diagnostic Features: mollic epipedon 0 to 30 cm.
cambic horizon 30 to 99 cm.
Cont. Site ID: S12IA155001 Pedon ID: S12IA155001
Slope
(%) Elevation
(meters) Aspect
(deg) MAAT
(C) MSAT
(C) MWAT
(C)
22.0
45
MAP
(mm)
86
Frost-
Free
Days
Drainage
Class
well
Slope
Length
(meters)
Upslope
Length
(meters)