IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Xenia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981IL115036
  • User Pedon ID: S1981IL115036
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0675
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49519
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 39.9375000
  • Std. Longitude: -88.7505569
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 570 meters west and 90 meters south of NE corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL115—Macon
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL115—Macon County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Wacker, S. Ernst, and T. Van
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 36
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Xenia
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Russell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—91

    —20—

    —71—
    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

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 81P04020
    AE—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate fine platy parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt boundary.
    Bt1—20 to 28 centimeters (7.9 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 60 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear boundary.
    Bt2—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 60 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 81P04021
    Bt3—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 75 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3) iron depletions and 3 percent fine irregular iron concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear boundary.
    2Bt4—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 30 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent coarse irregular iron concretions and 3 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 81P04022
    2BC—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3) clay films; 3 percent coarse irregular iron concretions and 3 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, unspecified; gradual boundary.
    2C—127 to 147 centimeters (50.0 to 57.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; massive; friable; 1 percent fine irregular iron concretions and 3 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron and 3 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified. Lab sample # 81P04023