IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IL073127
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IL073127
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79IL073127
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21120
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 41.3898975
  • Std. Longitude: -90.2616683
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 180 feet W & 2360 feet S of NE section 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: JA, 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 #: 127
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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—36

    36—94

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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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    224

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26316; observed in push tube
    A12—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26317; observed in push tube
    A3—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26318; observed in push tube
    B21t—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; between peds; faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26319; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 481344; continuous - phpvsfiid 481344
    B22t—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; between peds; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26320; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 481342; continuous - phpvsfiid 481342
    B23t—76 to 94 centimeters (29.9 to 37.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; between peds; faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26321; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 481345; continuous - phpvsfiid 481345
    B3—94 to 112 centimeters (37.0 to 44.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26322; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 481343; continuous - phpvsfiid 481343
    C—112 to 119 centimeters (44.1 to 46.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; friable; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # IL26323; observed in push tube