IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatune

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 1988IL067004

User Pedon ID: 1988IL067004

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Print Date: 12/5/2025

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: 40.5491861

Std. Longitude: -91.1497472

Datum: WGS84

Township: 6N

Range: 7W

Section: 1

PLSS Details: about 2,100 feet east and 100 feet south of the NW section corner; MLRA 115C

Location Description: Located about 3/4 mile north of Grove Creek in a Muscatine (41) map unit

Map Unit: 51A—Muscatune silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes

Country: US—United States

State: Illinois

County: IL067—Hancock

MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes

Regional Office: NC—North Central

MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPI—Springfield, Illinois

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL067—Hancock County, Illinois

7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40091-E2—Colusa, Illinois

PEDON

Describers Name: Carl E. Wacker

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description

Pedon Purpose: full pedon description

Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Muscatune

PSC - 58 to 107 cm.

Classificaton Date - 7/3/2012

Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - aquic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Muscatine

Classificaton Date - 3/20/2012

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: loess

Landscape: till plain

Landform: flat

Slope Shape Across: linear

Slope Shape Down: linear

Drainage Class: somewhat poorly

Flooding: none flooding

Ponding: none ponding

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 3/20/2012 (entry creation date)

Surface Cover Properties:

Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover

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 redox depletions with chroma 2 or less argillic horizon reduced matrix redox concentrations	0—46 46—135 58—107 58—178 58—178	—46— —89— —49— —120— —120—

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
0.5	—	—	210	—	0	1050	—	190	13	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary.

A—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary.

BA—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 75 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 25 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 1011753; continuous - phpvsfiid 1011753

Btg1—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 very fine roots; 10 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organoargillans on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint brown (10YR 4/3) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 1011754; continuous - phpvsfiid 1011755; continuous - phpvsfiid 1011754; continuous - phpvsfiid 1011755

Btg2—74 to 107 centimeters (29.1 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 very fine roots; 35 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organoargillans on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; diffuse smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 1011756; continuous - phpvsfiid 1011757; continuous - phpvsfiid 1011756; continuous - phpvsfiid 1011757

Btg3—107 to 135 centimeters (42.1 to 53.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.8 very fine roots; 10 percent prominent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organoargillans on surfaces along pores and 35 percent distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 25 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; diffuse smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1011758; continuous - phpvsfiid 1011759; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1011758; continuous - phpvsfiid 1011759

Cg—135 to 178 centimeters (53.1 to 70.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; massive; friable; 0.1 very fine roots; 10 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organoargillans on surfaces along pores; 25 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. the Cg horizon is very weakly effervescent below a depth of 62 inches; continuous - phpvsfiid 1011760; continuous - phpvsfiid 1011760