IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Varna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1986IL113025
  • User Pedon ID: 1986IL113025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86IL113025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21968
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.6852389
  • Std. Longitude: -88.7424556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1625 feet south and 1200 feet east of the center
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL113—McLean
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL113—McLean County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CLL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Oxyaquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Varna
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Varna
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or Wisconsinan till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain, ridge
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (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

    0—25

    25—117

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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 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds and fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32843
    A—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds and fine roots between peds; faint black (10YR 2/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32844. patchy - phpvsfiid 428674; patchy - phpvsfiid 428674
    Bt1—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and faint very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32845. patchy - phpvsfiid 428677; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428676; patchy - phpvsfiid 428677; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428676
    Bt2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 3.0 fine roots between peds; distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32846. patchy - phpvsfiid 428680; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428679; patchy - phpvsfiid 428680; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428679
    Bt3—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; very fine roots between peds and 3.0 fine roots between peds; distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32847. patchy - phpvsfiid 428682; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428681; patchy - phpvsfiid 428682; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428681
    2Bt4—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine prominent mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; very fine roots between peds and 3.0 fine roots between peds; distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32848. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428678; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428678
    2Bt5—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak fine prismatic structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32849. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428675; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428675
    2BC—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; 10 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) fine prominent and 10 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; weak fine prismatic structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # IL32850. patchy - phpvsfiid 428684; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428683; patchy - phpvsfiid 428684; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428683