IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mona
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2003IL177016
  • User Pedon ID: S2003IL177016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0453
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16721
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 42.3499985
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6233368
  • 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-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mona
  • PSC - 23 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jasper
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over glacial drift over lacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: bench
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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—23

    23—66

    —23—

    —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

    3

    —

    —

    275

    —

    270

    84

    —

    150

    9

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    —

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02726; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) rubbed silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02727; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 255329; continuous - phpvsfiid 255329
    2Bt2—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; faint brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, organoargillans on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02728; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 255330; continuous - phpvsfiid 255330
    2BC—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; moderately rapid permeability; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02729; observed in pit, small
    3Bt—79 to 86 centimeters (31.1 to 33.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; 10 percent coarse prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout and 10 percent coarse prominent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02730; observed in pit, small
    4E—86 to 97 centimeters (33.9 to 38.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; moderate permeability; 10 percent medium prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02731; observed in pit, small
    5Bt—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); variegated 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 40 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; very slow permeability; dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fine prominent spherical black (5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese concretions throughout and 10 percent coarse prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron-manganese masses throughout; 1 percent by volume 20-30-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 3 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N02732; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 255331; continuous - phpvsfiid 255331
    5C1—127 to 137 centimeters (50.0 to 53.9 inches); variegated 60 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; massive; firm; slow permeability; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N02733; observed in pit, small
    6C2—137 to 163 centimeters (53.9 to 64.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy loam; massive; friable; moderately rapid permeability; 1 percent by volume 2-5-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N02734; observed in pit, small
    6C3—163 to 188 centimeters (64.2 to 74.0 inches); variegated 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) stratified stratified sandy loam to loam to silt loam; massive; friable; moderate permeability; fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 04N02735; observed in pit, small
    7C4—188 to 206 centimeters (74.0 to 81.1 inches); variegated brown (10YR 5/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; massive; friable; moderate permeability; fine prominent spherical black (5YR 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses throughout and 1 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout and 10 percent coarse prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N02736; observed in pit, small
    7C5—206 to 218 centimeters (81.1 to 85.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; massive; friable; moderate permeability; 10 percent coarse strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 04N02737; observed in pit, small