IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Symerton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1986IL113031
  • User Pedon ID: 1986IL113031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86IL113031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21972
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.7539972
  • Std. Longitude: -88.6730417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 2046 feet east and 891 feet south of northwest corner
  • Location Description: Yates Township
  • 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: RDW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 31
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Symerton
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Symerton
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or Wisconsinan outwash and/or Wisconsinan till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1986 (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—33

    33—124

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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

    2

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32873
    A—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), gray (10YR 5/1) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32874
    Bt1—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32875. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428615; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428615
    2Bt2—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32876. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428608; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428608
    2Bt3—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32877. patchy - phpvsfiid 428610; patchy - phpvsfiid 428610
    2Bt4—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and prominent brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32878. patchy - phpvsfiid 428614; patchy - phpvsfiid 428614
    3BC—124 to 135 centimeters (48.8 to 53.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32879
    3C—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium prominent and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine prominent mottles; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # IL32880