IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Watseka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 81IL017048
  • User Pedon ID: 81IL017048
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: about 258 feet south & 204 feet east of the section center; MLRA 115C

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard W. Sims & Dale E. Calsyn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Watseka
  • Classificaton Date - 2/17/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Watseka
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: outwash plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/10/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    1025

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    190

    13

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sand; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary.
    A—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine roots; 10 percent faint very dark brown (10YR 2/2) organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 494690; continuous - phpvsfiid 494690
    BA—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.8 very fine roots; 35 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4) iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 494691; continuous - phpvsfiid 494691
    Bw—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 0.8 very fine roots; 1 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions throughout and 10 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary.
    BC—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; loose; 0.8 very fine roots; 10 percent medium faint brown (10YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual smooth boundary.
    C—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0.