IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IL053008
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IL053008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81IL053008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21593
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 40.5350139
  • Std. Longitude: -88.4374278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1865 feet north and 1275 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 56B—Dana silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL053—Ford
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-AUR—Aurora, Illinois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL053—Ford County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40088-E4—Sibley, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WMT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dana
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/9/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dana
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/8/1981
  • Classifier - WMT
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over loamy till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: moraine, till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/8/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: WMT
  • Air Photo ID: AS 274
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—36

    48—124

    74—74

    —36—

    —76—

    —0—
    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

    —

    —

    250

    —

    923

    —

    174

    10

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Gibson City, IL

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28068
    A—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine granular, and moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28069
    Bt1—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 25 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 7 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28070
    Bt2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate very fine angular blocky, and moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm; 30 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28071
    2Bt3—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28072
    2Bt4—99 to 124 centimeters (39.0 to 48.8 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 40 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct olive (5Y 4/3), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28073
    2BCt—124 to 155 centimeters (48.8 to 61.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate coarse prismatic structure; firm; 20 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28074
    2C—155 to 183 centimeters (61.0 to 72.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) silt loam; structureless massive; firm; 7 percent medium distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # IL28075