IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatune
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1962IL057002
  • User Pedon ID: S1962IL057002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 62IL057002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20516
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 40.4087043
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4481562
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 140 feet N of SW corner
  • Location Description: 140FT N of SW corner of Sec.18
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL057—Fulton
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL057—Fulton County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Burt W. Ray, Charles J. Frazee, Joe B. Fehrenbacher, John D. Alexander
  • 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: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatune
  • PSC - 61 to 111 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • 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: 8/1/1962 (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—51

    61—124

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    —63—
    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

    3.5

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL18961
    A1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL18962
    A2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); 80 percent black (10YR 2/1) and 20 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; firm; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL18963
    BA—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); variegated very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; firm; 3.0 roots; 60 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL18964
    Bt—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); variegated dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 roots; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions and 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL18965
    Btg1—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); variegated grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 roots; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL18966
    Btg2—99 to 124 centimeters (39.0 to 48.8 inches); variegated grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 roots; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL18967. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1252994; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1252994
    BCg—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); variegated yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 roots; grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2) iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine distinct black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8. Lab sample # IL18968