IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pella
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1966IL097002
  • User Pedon ID: 1966IL097002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 66IL097002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20614
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.4715401
  • Std. Longitude: -88.0203689
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 46N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 13
  • Location Description: 417 feet west of center of Rt.45 along dead-end road, 110 feet south to site
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL097—Lake
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL097—Lake County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42088-D1—Antioch, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JDA, EEK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pella
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pella
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over outwash and till
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—28

    28—104

    28—152

    —28—

    —76—

    —124—
    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

    0.5

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    —

    244

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20194
    BAg—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20195
    Btg1—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silty clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 roots; very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent fine distinct olive (5Y 5/3), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20196. continuous - phpvsfiid 1092189; continuous - phpvsfiid 1092189
    2Btg2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 roots; dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20197. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1092188; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1092188
    2BCg—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silty clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20198
    2Cg—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) gravelly silty clay loam; structureless massive; friable; 0.6 roots; 10 percent fine prominent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 25 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # IL20199