IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Osco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IL143047
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IL143047
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0245
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52487
  • 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: 40.9169806
  • Std. Longitude: -89.8501056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet N and 300 feet E of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: 43A—Ipava silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL143—Peoria
  • 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: IL143—Peoria County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40089-H7—Princeville, Illinois
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MW, MS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 47
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Osco
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tama
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: knoll
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • 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

    2

    235.8

    180

    1025

    190

    13

    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01121. many very fine roots; few fine roots
    A1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. many very fine roots
    A2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, dry; silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.5 very fine roots; 15 percent prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many very fine roots
    Bt1—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.5 very fine roots; 15 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organoargillans on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots
    Bt2—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 very fine roots; 15 percent prominent dark brown (10YR 3/3) organoargillans on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01122. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots
    Bt3—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 very fine roots; 15 percent prominent brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Common fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/1) rinds around root channels.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; few fine faint 10YR56 mottles
    Bt4—97 to 145 centimeters (38.2 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary. Common fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) rinds around root channels.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots; common fine faint 10YR56 mottles
    C—145 to 152 centimeters (57.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 11 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 11 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # 83P01123. few very fine roots; common fine faint 10YR56 mottles; common fine faint 10YR62 mottles