IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Varna
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IL075012
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IL075012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79IL075012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21121
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 40.9837859
  • Std. Longitude: -88.0992736
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2 feet N & 1360 feet W of SE corner
  • Location Description: (2FT N & 1360FT W(40FT W of field edge) of SE corner Sec.17
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL075—Iroquois
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL075—Iroquois County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40088-H1—Piper City NE, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K, K
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Oxyaquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Varna
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Varna
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess over silty clay loam Wisconsinan till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—71

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    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

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    224

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; silty clay loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26324
    IIB21t—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds and 50 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26325. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 480343; continuous - phpvsfiid 480342; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 480343; continuous - phpvsfiid 480342
    IIB22t—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26326. continuous - phpvsfiid 480341; continuous - phpvsfiid 480341
    IIB3t—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26327. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 480345; continuous - phpvsfiid 480344; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 480345; continuous - phpvsfiid 480344
    IIC—71 to 152 centimeters (28.0 to 59.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent gray (5Y 5/1) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 25 percent prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # IL26328