IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscatune
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988IL027061
  • User Pedon ID: S1988IL027061
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88IL027061
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22085
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 16
  • Location Description: Lookingglass Township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL027—Clinton
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL027—Clinton County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Ward Lenz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 61
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatune
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or Roxana loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1987 (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—25

    36—119

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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

    0

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    132.6

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33735
    BA—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron depletions in matrix and 1 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33736. continuous - phpvsfiid 1253034; continuous - phpvsfiid 1253034
    Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33737. continuous - phpvsfiid 1253035; continuous - phpvsfiid 1253035
    Btg1—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate very fine prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; medium distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 25 percent fine distinct iron depletions in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33738. continuous - phpvsfiid 1253030; continuous - phpvsfiid 1253030
    Btg2—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silt loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 25 percent fine prominent iron depletions in matrix and 25 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33739. continuous - phpvsfiid 1253031; continuous - phpvsfiid 1253031
    2Btg3—97 to 119 centimeters (38.2 to 46.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 25 percent fine prominent iron depletions in matrix and 25 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33740. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1253033; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1253033
    2BCg4—119 to 140 centimeters (46.9 to 55.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix and 10 percent fine prominent iron depletions in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # IL33741. patchy - phpvsfiid 1253032; patchy - phpvsfiid 1253032