IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatune
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1986IL187029
  • User Pedon ID: S1986IL187029
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86IL187029
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22006
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 40.7887806
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5100083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 2540 feet west and 100 feet north of southeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL187—Warren
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL187—Warren County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steven L. Elmer
  • 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: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 29
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatune
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ipava
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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—38

    51—99

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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

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; medium granular, and moderate fine structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33160
    A1—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33161
    A2—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; medium subangular blocky, and weak fine structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL33162
    Btg1—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; medium subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on all faces of peds and distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2) organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL33163
    Btg2—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; distinct very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) organoargillans on all faces of peds and distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL33164
    Btg3—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 25 percent coarse prominent 7.5YR 4/8 (7.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL33165
    Cg—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 25 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 25 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # IL33166, IL33167. Horizon split for sampling: IL33167 137 to 152 cm, IL33166 114 to 137 cm.