IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatune
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IL073124
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IL073124
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79IL073124
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21117
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.3970418
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3001835
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 190 feet N & 335 feet W of SE corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL073—Henry
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL073—Henry County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41090-D3—Green Rock, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LB, BR, MF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 124
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatune
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatune
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1979 (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

    0—30

    30—99

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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

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    223

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26290; observed in push tube
    A12—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26291; observed in push tube
    B1t—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26292; observed in push tube
    B21t—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26293; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481370; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481370
    B22t—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26294; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 481371; continuous - phpvsfiid 481371
    B23t—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26295; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 481373; continuous - phpvsfiid 481373
    B3—99 to 117 centimeters (39.0 to 46.1 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) silty clay loam; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL26296; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 481372; patchy - phpvsfiid 481372
    C—117 to 119 centimeters (46.1 to 46.9 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) silt loam; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog.