IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985IL039002
  • User Pedon ID: S1985IL039002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0314
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56030
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 40.1919694
  • Std. Longitude: -88.8930000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2442 feet north and 1122 feet east of southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 56B2—Dana silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL039—De Witt
  • 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: IL039—De Witt County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40088-B8—Clinton, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RDW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dana
  • PSC - 36 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dana
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1985
  • Classifier - RDW
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: RDW
  • Air Photo ID: 2AA-4
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—23

    36—74

    74—74

    —23—

    —38—

    —0—
    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

    4

    —

    —

    232

    —

    23

    973

    —

    177

    10.7

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    115079

    Lincoln, IL

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31550
    Bt1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31551
    Bt2—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong medium angular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31552
    Bt3—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 30 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions throughout and 1 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31553
    2BCt—74 to 114 centimeters (29.1 to 44.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 25 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions throughout; 4 percent by volume nonflat subangular ? to 4-? millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31554
    2C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions throughout; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular ? to 4-? millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # IL31555