IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Knight
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003IL177015
  • User Pedon ID: S2003IL177015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0452
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16720
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • 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: 42.3508339
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6244431
  • 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-C5—Freeport East, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SLE, FEH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Knight
  • PSC - 104 to 154 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sawmill
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • 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—71

    104—168

    —71—

    —64—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    273

    —

    360

    84

    —

    150

    9

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak thin platy, and weak medium platy structure; friable; moderate permeability; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N02718; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A—23 to 71 centimeters (9.1 to 28.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02719; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    BEg—71 to 81 centimeters (28.0 to 31.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) silt loam; weak thick platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; medium prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02720; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02721; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Btg1—104 to 140 centimeters (40.9 to 55.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; distinct olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02722; very moist when described; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 255327; patchy - phpvsfiid 255327
    Btg2—140 to 168 centimeters (55.1 to 66.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic structure; friable; moderate permeability; distinct olive gray (5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and medium prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (N 2/0), moist, manganese masses throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02723; very moist when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 255328; continuous - phpvsfiid 255328
    2BCg—168 to 188 centimeters (66.1 to 74.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; coarse prominent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02724; very moist when described; observed in pit, small
    3Cg—188 to 203 centimeters (74.0 to 79.9 inches); variegated olive gray (5Y 5/2) and reddish brown (5YR 5/4) silty clay; massive; firm; slow permeability; medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 04N02725; very moist when described; observed in pit, small