IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatune
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1940IL061001
  • User Pedon ID: S1940IL061001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40IL061001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20417
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 39.4389271
  • Std. Longitude: -90.3374150
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 33
  • Location Description: 25 rods S of road T on W side of gravel road
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL061—Greene
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL061—Greene County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Russell T. Odell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, subactive, mesic Aquic Pachic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatune
  • PSC - 76 to 126 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/13/2015
  • Classifier - Frank Heisner
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1940 (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 -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—76

    76—127

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1.5

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL16561
    A2—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL16562, IL16563. Horizon split for sampling: IL16562 15 to 25 cm, IL16563 25 to 36 cm.
    A3—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL16564, IL16565. Horizon split for sampling: IL16564 36 to 46 cm, IL16565 46 to 53 cm.
    A4—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL16566, IL16567. Horizon split for sampling: IL16566 53 to 61 cm, IL16567 61 to 69 cm.
    AB—69 to 76 centimeters (27.2 to 29.9 inches); 10YR 2.5/1 (10YR 2.5/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine faint brown (10YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL16568
    Bt—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; black (10YR 2/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent fine faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL16569, IL16570. Horizon split for sampling: IL16569 76 to 89 cm, IL16570 89 to 102 cm.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1252973; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1252973
    Btg—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL16571, IL16572. Horizon split for sampling: IL16571 102 to 114 cm, IL16572 114 to 127 cm.