IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1986IL125034
  • User Pedon ID: 1986IL125034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86IL125034
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21980
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 40.1651111
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6563417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 705 feet south and 645 feet east of northwest corner
  • Location Description: Mason City Township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL125—Mason
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL125—Mason County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DEC DGL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 34
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - St. Charles
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1986 (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

    ochric epipedon

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—30

    46—127

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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

    1

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    —

    160

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32944
    A—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32945
    E—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak thin platy structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32946
    BE—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32947
    Bt1—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry, clay depletions on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32948. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498667; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498667
    Bt2—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, lamotte-morgan; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32949. continuous - phpvsfiid 1498668; continuous - phpvsfiid 1498668
    Bt3—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, lamotte-morgan; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL32950. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498672; continuous - phpvsfiid 1498671; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1498672; continuous - phpvsfiid 1498671
    Bt4—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # IL32951. continuous - phpvsfiid 1498669; patchy - phpvsfiid 1498670; continuous - phpvsfiid 1498669; patchy - phpvsfiid 1498670