IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clare
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1968IL019001
  • User Pedon ID: 1968IL019001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68IL019001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20641
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 40.0691694
  • Std. Longitude: -88.1679333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 34
  • Location Description: 384 feet west of center of ditch culvert and 66 feet south of center of road
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL019—Champaign
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL019—Champaign County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40088-A2—Urbana, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BWR, JDA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clare
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1999
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Proctor
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1968
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over outwash
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1968 (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

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—36

    36—112

    91—91

    —36—

    —76—

    —0—
    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

    2.5

    —

    —

    213

    —

    940

    —

    —

    11.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20985
    AB—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20986
    Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds and ; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20987. continuous - phpvsfiid 1092082; continuous - phpvsfiid 1092082
    Bt2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20988. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1092080; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1092080
    Bt3—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 10 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20989. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1092079; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1092079
    2Bt4—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent medium faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20990. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1092081; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1092081
    2BC—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) stratified stratified loam to sandy loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 25 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20991. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1092078; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1092078
    2C1—127 to 168 centimeters (50.0 to 66.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) stratified stratified loam to sandy loam; massive; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL20992
    2C2—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) stratified stratified sand to loamy sand to sandy loam; single grain; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1. Lab sample # IL20993