IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatune
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1975IL103015
  • User Pedon ID: 1975IL103015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 75IL103015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20791
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 41.8043219
  • Std. Longitude: -89.3425065
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: about 1,070 feet north & 110 feet west of the SE section corner; MLRA 108B
  • Location Description: Located about 3.5 miles east of Threemile Branch in a very large Sable (68) map unit (same MU as Typical Pedon site)
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL103—Lee
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL103—Lee County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SEZ
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatune
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatune
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/10/2012 (entry creation date)
  • 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
    • 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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    250

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    890

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    170

    11

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); N 2/1 (N 2/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24106
    A—18 to 51 centimeters (7.1 to 20.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and very fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24107
    Bt—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent and 25 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 6.0 very fine tubular pores; 50 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24108. continuous - phpvsfiid 1147639; continuous - phpvsfiid 1147639
    Bw—76 to 119 centimeters (29.9 to 46.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silt loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine prominent and 25 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) medium and 25 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) medium faint mottles; moderate coarse prismatic structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots; 6.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24109
    C—119 to 183 centimeters (46.9 to 72.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; massive; friable; 6.0 very fine tubular pores; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments. Lab sample # IL24110