IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clarence
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IL053005
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IL053005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81IL053005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21347
  • 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: 40.4852355
  • Std. Longitude: -87.9484740
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 175 feet south and 1625 feet east of northwest corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL053—Ford
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL053—Ford County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarence
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clarence
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or Wisconsinan till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1981 (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—25

    25—74

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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

    3

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); variegated very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine angular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28056
    IIB21t—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and 10 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28057. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460380; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460380
    IIB22t—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; 10 percent gray (5Y 6/1) medium distinct and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28058. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460381; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460381
    IIB3t—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); variegated light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and gray (5Y 6/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL28059. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460382; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460382
    IIC—74 to 152 centimeters (29.1 to 59.8 inches); variegated light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and gray (5Y 6/1) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; structureless massive; very firm; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # IL28060