IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sable
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988IL027086
  • User Pedon ID: 1988IL027086
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88IL027086
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22102
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.6313667
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6889028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet north and 300 feet west of southeast corner
  • Location Description: Sugar Creek Township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL027—Clinton
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL027—Clinton County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G Ward Lenz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 86
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sable
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Virden
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or Roxana loess and/or Illinoian till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—36

    36—99

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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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    151.5

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33856
    A—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine faint iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33857
    Btg1—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to strong medium granular structure; friable; distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33858
    Btg2—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine prismatic structure; friable; distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct iron-manganese masses in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine prominent carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33859
    Btg3—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct iron-manganese masses in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine prominent carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33860
    Btg4—84 to 99 centimeters (33.1 to 39.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent fine prominent carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33861
    Bt—99 to 127 centimeters (39.0 to 50.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent fine prominent carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33862
    C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent medium prominent carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # IL33863