IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peotone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993IL043002
  • User Pedon ID: S1993IL043002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1993IL043002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 96P0152
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68230
  • 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: 41.9628056
  • Std. Longitude: -88.2267417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1670 feet north and 1050 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Pratt's Wayne Woods, DuPage County Forest Preserve Wetland Restoration Study, Well 18, north and south pit faces
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL043—DuPage
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL043—DuPage County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41088-H2—West Chicago, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Bramstedt K. Olson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Cumulic Vertic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Peotone
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peotone
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Cumulic Haplaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/1993
  • Classifier - M. Bramstedt and K. Olson
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: depression
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/4/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    POPUL

    Populus

    cottonwood

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—90

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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

    0.5

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    231

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01280
    Oi—5 to 0 centimeters (2.0 to 0.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) peat; 21.0 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A2—5 to 14 centimeters (2.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A3—14 to 27 centimeters (5.5 to 10.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01281
    Agb1—27 to 42 centimeters (10.6 to 16.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01282
    Agb2—42 to 61 centimeters (16.5 to 24.0 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; fine prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 96P01283
    BAgb—61 to 90 centimeters (24.0 to 35.4 inches); black (N 2.5/), silty clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine to coarse roots throughout; fine prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) iron-manganese masses in matrix and fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # 96P01284