IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Durand
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003IL177014
  • User Pedon ID: S2003IL177014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0451
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16719
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.3516655
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6263885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4, 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-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Durand
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hitt
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over glacial diamicton over residuum weathered from dolomite
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    36—140

    —25—

    —104—
    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

    3.5

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    —

    276

    —

    360

    84

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    150

    9

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02711; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02712; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; prominent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02713; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; prominent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on vertical faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02714; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; prominent brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organoargillans on surfaces along root channels; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02715; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 255319; continuous - phpvsfiid 255320; continuous - phpvsfiid 255319; continuous - phpvsfiid 255320
    2Bt4—97 to 140 centimeters (38.2 to 55.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; friable; moderate permeability; prominent brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02716; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 255321; continuous - phpvsfiid 255321
    2C—140 to 203 centimeters (55.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) sandy loam; massive; very friable; moderately rapid permeability; fragments. Lab sample # 04N02717; observed in pit, small