IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fincastle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984IL183140
  • User Pedon ID: 1984IL183140
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84IL183140
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21785
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 40.1602056
  • Std. Longitude: -87.7178500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 460 feet W & 70 feet N of SE corner
  • Location Description: Blount Township
  • Map Unit: 496A—Fincastle silt loam, Bloomington Ridged Plain, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL183—Vermilion
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL183—Vermilion County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40087-B6—Danville NW, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Wacker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aeric Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 140
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fincastle
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blount
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aeric Ochraqualfs
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1984
  • Classifier - CW
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1984 (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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—30

    30—94

    94—94

    —30—

    —64—

    —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

    2

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    214

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31404
    BE—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 50 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, silica coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions throughout and 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 25 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31405
    Bt1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 50 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine spherical yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout and 10 percent fine distinct masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 25 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31406
    Bt2—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 50 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions throughout and 25 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 25 percent fine distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31407
    Bt3—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds and 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions throughout and 10 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 25 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31408
    2BC—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on surfaces along pores and 25 percent distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31409
    2C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; structureless massive; very firm; 10 percent distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, pressure faces; 1 percent fine irregular light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, iron-manganese concretions throughout and 1 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4. Lab sample # IL31410