IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sunbury
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IL147025
  • User Pedon ID: S1983IL147025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0178
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53872
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 39.8467250
  • Std. Longitude: -88.4678694
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1464 feet N and 1060 feet E of the center
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL147—Piatt
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39088-G4—Atwood, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Carlson and L. Halvorson.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sunbury
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/3/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sunbury
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Aquollic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—20

    20—127

    127—127

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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

    1

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    207

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P00896
    Bt1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses throughout and 11 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 11 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P00897
    Bt2—46 to 79 centimeters (18.1 to 31.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 55 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses throughout and 11 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 11 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P00897
    Bt3—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses throughout and 30 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 30 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P00897
    Bt4—104 to 127 centimeters (40.9 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses throughout and 30 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 30 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; 15 percent krotovinas (volume percent); slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P00897
    2BCt—127 to 137 centimeters (50.0 to 53.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses throughout and 11 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 30 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P00898
    2C—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses throughout and 11 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 30 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P00898