IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Xenia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IL183024
  • User Pedon ID: S1983IL183024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0352
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54596
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 40.0055750
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5552389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet E and 2100 feet N of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: 291B—Xenia silt loam, Bloomington Ridged Plain, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL183—Vermilion
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-AUR—Aurora, Illinois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL183—Vermilion County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40087-A5—Danville SE, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CEW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 24
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Xenia
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/14/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Xenia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—28

    41—124

    66—152

    66—66

    —28—

    —83—

    —86—

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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

    3

    —

    —

    201.2

    —

    1040

    —

    169

    11.4

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    112140

    Danville, IL

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01892
    E—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Not sampled.
    BE—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Not sampled.
    Bt1—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 37 percent faint pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on faces of peds and 55 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01893. Iron depletions are in lower 4 inches.; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common organic coats surface features on faces of peds; few fine faint 10YR52 redox features
    2Bt2—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions throughout and 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01894. common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common fine distinct 10YR52 mottles; few fine distinct 10YR56 mottles
    2Bt3—97 to 124 centimeters (38.2 to 48.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains in root channels and/or pores and 37 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions throughout; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Not sampled.; common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few organic coats surface features in root channels and/or pores; many fine distinct 2.5Y52 mottles; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles
    2BC—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organic stains in root channels and/or pores; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 12 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 30 percent fine distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions throughout; 4 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Not sampled.; common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few organic coats surface features in root channels and/or pores; many fine distinct 2.5Y52 mottles; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles