IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wingate
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988IL045002
  • User Pedon ID: 1988IL045002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88IL045002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22104
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.5917194
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5537417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 8
  • Location Description: Stratton Township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL045—Edgar
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL045—Edgar County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Vice, T. Schmidt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wingate
  • PSC - 20 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/22/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wingate
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1988
  • Classifier - MV and TS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or Wisconsinan till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: moraine
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1988 (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

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    20—66

    86—86

    —20—

    —46—

    —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

    3

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    192

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine granular, and moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; ; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33870
    Bt1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 60 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33871
    Bt2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 40 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses throughout and 5 percent medium spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33872
    Bt3—66 to 86 centimeters (26.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses throughout and 5 percent fine spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33873
    2BCt—86 to 135 centimeters (33.9 to 53.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.6 very fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 1 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 1 percent medium irregular very weakly coherent cemented masses of oxidized iron throughout and 5 percent medium spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses throughout and 5 percent fine spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses throughout; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-25 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33874
    2C—135 to 165 centimeters (53.1 to 65.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent medium spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses throughout and 1 percent fine spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses throughout and 1 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent medium spherical very weakly coherent cemented masses of oxidized iron throughout; 8 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. Lab sample # IL33875