IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sable
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IL017054
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IL017054
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81IL017054
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21329
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.9243321
  • Std. Longitude: -90.2465698
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: about 66 feet north & 492 feet east of the section center
  • Map Unit: 68A—Sable silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL017—Cass
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPI—Springfield, Illinois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL017—Cass County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39090-H2—Virginia, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DEC, RWS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 54
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sable
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sable
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/25/2009 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    aquic conditions

    cambic horizon

    0—48

    0—152

    48—127

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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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    —

    —

    —

    1025

    —

    190

    13

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27899
    A1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27900
    AB—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 1 percent fine faint iron-manganese masses in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27901
    Btg1—48 to 58 centimeters (18.9 to 22.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct iron-manganese masses in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27902. continuous - phpvsfiid 1147536; continuous - phpvsfiid 1147536
    Btg2—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay films on all faces of peds and prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27903. continuous - phpvsfiid 1147537; patchy - phpvsfiid 1147538; continuous - phpvsfiid 1147537; patchy - phpvsfiid 1147538
    Btg3—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); variegated light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on all faces of peds and prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27904. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1147539; patchy - phpvsfiid 1147540; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1147539; patchy - phpvsfiid 1147540
    Btg4—97 to 112 centimeters (38.2 to 44.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds and prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 25 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27905. patchy - phpvsfiid 1147541; patchy - phpvsfiid 1147542; patchy - phpvsfiid 1147541; patchy - phpvsfiid 1147542
    Btg5—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 10 percent medium distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27906. patchy - phpvsfiid 1147535; patchy - phpvsfiid 1147535
    Cg—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); variegated light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silt loam; massive; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; prominent dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # IL27907. patchy - phpvsfiid 1147543; patchy - phpvsfiid 1147543