IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1948IL197007
  • User Pedon ID: 48IL-197-007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 48IL197007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20340
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 41.4002432
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5868011
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 26
  • Location Description: 75 FT W of dirt road
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL197—Will
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL197—Will County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: EPW, PTV, JDA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2010
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1948
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1948 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed silt loam; fine granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL17528
    A2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face and pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed silt loam; fine granular structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL17529
    A3—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed silt loam; fine granular structure; friable; pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL17530
    B1—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed silty clay loam; fine angular blocky structure; firm; pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL17531
    B2—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); variegated 80 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 20 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face and light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed silty clay; medium angular blocky, and prismatic structure; very firm; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL17532
    B2—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); variegated 60 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face and 40 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and brown (10YR 5/3) crushed silty clay; coarse angular blocky, and prismatic structure; very firm; dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL17533
    C1—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); variegated 90 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 10 percent gray (5Y 6/1) broken face and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed silty clay loam; coarse angular blocky, and prismatic structure; firm; dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL17534
    C2—79 to 94 centimeters (31.1 to 37.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed silty clay loam; angular blocky, and massive; firm; gray (10YR 6/1), moist, carbonate coats on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7. Lab sample # IL17535, IL17536. Horizon split for sampling: IL17535 79 to 94 cm, IL17536 94 to 109 cm.
    94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7.