Tama soils are both upslope and downslope from Muscatine. Tama soils have brown B horizons and are well drained. Muscatine soils form a hydrosequence with the well-drained Tama soils and the poorly drained Garwin and Sable soils. They form a biosequence with the Atterberry soils and the Stronghurst soils, which are on similar landscape positions. Somewhat poorly drained.
Permeability is moderate.
Surface runoff is slow. Mainly used for cultivated crops. Corn and soybeans are usually grown and occasionally small grains and legume hays. Native vegetation was tall prairie grasses. They are extensive.