IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Udorthents
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992IL031025
  • User Pedon ID: 92IL031025a
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 93P0043
  • 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: 41.8811252
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6147383
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Grant Park Soils Study, Chicago, Illinois. Site #1, Patrillo Bandshell, high traffic grass field.
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL031—Cook
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-AUR—Aurora, Illinois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL031—Cook County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dale Calsyn and Jeff Deniger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Udorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: human-transported material
  • Runoff: low
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous 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

    ochric epipedon

    0—6

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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
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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); 98 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 2 percent brown (10YR 4/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00325
    A2—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); 98 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 2 percent brown (10YR 5/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00326
    C1—6 to 23 centimeters (2.4 to 9.1 inches); 90 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 8 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 2 percent brown (10YR 5/3) loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00327
    C2—23 to 85 centimeters (9.1 to 33.5 inches); 80 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 15 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 5 percent brown (10YR 5/3) loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00328. 93P0329
    C3—85 to 126 centimeters (33.5 to 49.6 inches); 90 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1) silty clay loam, loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; massive, and weak medium and coarse subangular blocky; firm; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00330
    C4—126 to 139 centimeters (49.6 to 54.7 inches); 65 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 25 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and 10 percent gray (10YR 5/1) silt loam, loam, sandy loam; massive; firm; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 93P00331
    C5—139 to 152 centimeters (54.7 to 59.8 inches); 80 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 20 percent black (N 2/0) silt loam, loam; massive; firm; 1 percent by volume cinders fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 93P00332