IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arrowsmith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002IL099019
  • User Pedon ID: S2002IL099019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0299
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15485
  • 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: 41.2019444
  • Std. Longitude: -89.0816667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 35
  • Location Description: Eden township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL099—La Salle
  • 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: IL099—La Salle County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Crew 2
  • 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: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arrowsmith
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/19/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscatine
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/19/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—36

    36—79

    —36—

    —43—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    197

    —

    135

    946

    —

    158

    10

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    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 20 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on all faces of peds and 26 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent fine prominent black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese concretions throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 243858; continuous - phpvsfiid 243859; continuous - phpvsfiid 243858; continuous - phpvsfiid 243859
    Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 15 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organic stains in root channels and/or pores and 24 percent distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese concretions throughout and 3 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions in matrix and 5 percent fine and medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) iron concretions throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 243860; continuous - phpvsfiid 243861; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 243860; continuous - phpvsfiid 243861
    Bt3—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots; 20 percent distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese concretions throughout and 10 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent fine faint light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 25 percent fine and medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 243862; continuous - phpvsfiid 243862
    BC—79 to 91 centimeters (31.1 to 35.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; weak medium and coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 2 percent fine prominent black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese concretions throughout and 6 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine and medium prominent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 35 percent fine and medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary.
    C—91 to 203 centimeters (35.8 to 79.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 1 percent fine prominent black (7.5YR 2.5/1) manganese concretions throughout and 6 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine and medium prominent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 40 percent medium and coarse distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent medium and coarse prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence.