IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sable
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IL115028
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IL115028
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81IL115028
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21292
  • 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: 40.0042989
  • Std. Longitude: -88.8975965
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet south and 280 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL115—Macon
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL115—Macon County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 28
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sable
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2009
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Virden
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1981 (actual site observation 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

    cambic horizon

    0—25

    25—104

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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

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28132
    Btg1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate very fine prismatic, and moderate subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct very dark gray (5Y 3/1) clay films on all faces of peds and faint black (5Y 2.5/2) organoargillans on surfaces along pores; 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28133. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1147558; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1147558
    Btg2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine prismatic structure; friable; 0.6 roots between peds; 0.6 pores; distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on all faces of peds and distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organoargillans on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent very fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28134. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1147560; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1147560
    Btg3—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); gray (5Y 5/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; faint dark gray (5Y 4/1) clay films on all faces of peds and distinct very dark gray (5Y 3/1) organoargillans on surfaces along pores; 10 percent fine distinct irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28135. continuous - phpvsfiid 1147556; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1147557; continuous - phpvsfiid 1147556; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1147557
    BCg—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 10 percent fine prominent irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28136
    Cg—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); gray (5Y 6/1) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 10 percent fine prominent irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # IL28137