IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nachusa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL103013
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL103013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL103013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20971
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 41.7319813
  • Std. Longitude: -89.3426491
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 246 feet E & 952 feet N of SW corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL103—Lee
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL103—Lee County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41089-F3—Amboy, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SEZ, HWG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nachusa
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed,649
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess over Illinoian till with Sangamon age paleosol
  • Landscape: till plain, upland
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1977 (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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    41—117

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    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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    236

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots between peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25816
    B1—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots between peds; 10 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25817. patchy - phpvsfiid 481016; patchy - phpvsfiid 481016
    B21t—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine faint mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 medium roots between peds; 25 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25818. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481018; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481018
    IIB22t—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine prominent and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots between peds; 25 percent prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25819. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481019; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481019
    IIB23t—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine prominent and 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.6 medium roots between peds; 25 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25820. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481015; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481015
    IIB3—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) stratified stratified loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) fine faint and 10 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine faint mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 25 percent prominent gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # IL25821. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481017; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481017