IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ashdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003IL177010
  • User Pedon ID: S2003IL177010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0447
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16715
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 42.3508339
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6299973
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL177—Stephenson
  • MLRA: 95—Eastern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, and Upper Michigan Drift Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL177—Stephenson County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42089-C6—Freeport West, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Zwicker, Steve
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashdale
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashdale
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over glacial diamicton over residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: dolomite (dolostone)
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/3/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02681; observed in pit, small
    A—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); 95 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 5 percent brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02682; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02683; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 255305; continuous - phpvsfiid 255305
    Bt2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02684; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 255306; continuous - phpvsfiid 255306
    Bt3—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02685; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 255307; continuous - phpvsfiid 255307
    2Bt4—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02686; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 255308; continuous - phpvsfiid 255308
    3Bt5—104 to 112 centimeters (40.9 to 44.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, and dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02687; observed in pit, small
    3Cr—112 to 153 centimeters (44.1 to 60.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) paraflagstones; massive; fragments. Lab sample # 04N02688; observed in pit, small