IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chenoa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1986IL113015
  • User Pedon ID: 1986IL113015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86IL113015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21960
  • 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: 40.6677861
  • Std. Longitude: -88.6406306
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet west and 600 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL113—McLean
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL113—McLean County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40088-F6—Chenoa, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JKH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chenoa
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elliott thick L
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—38

    38—89

    46—152

    79—79

    —38—

    —51—

    —106—

    —0—
    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

    1

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    —

    232

    —

    270

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32780
    A—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32781
    Bt1—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32782
    Bt2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32783
    Bt3—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; common (3.0) medium roots throughout; 35 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32784
    2Bt4—79 to 89 centimeters (31.1 to 35.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; few (0.6) medium roots throughout; 15 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent medium spherical carbonate concretions throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-25 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32785
    2C—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 10 percent medium spherical carbonate concretions throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-25 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # IL32786