IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Xenia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983IL147035
  • User Pedon ID: S1983IL147035
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0180
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53874
  • 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: 39.8272444
  • Std. Longitude: -88.4774083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet N and 1000 feet E of SW corner
  • Map Unit: 291B—Xenia silt loam, Bloomington Ridged Plain, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL147—Piatt
  • 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: IL147—Piatt County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39088-G4—Atwood, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Halvorson and M. Carlson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 35
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Xenia
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Xenia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over loamy till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ground moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—23

    23—109

    46—152

    81—81

    —23—

    —86—

    —106—

    —-
    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

    —

    —

    205

    —

    0

    1033

    —

    173

    12.1

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    118684

    Tuscola, IL

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P0903. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine roots
    E—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 50 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P0903. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine roots
    Bt1—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 55 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses and 12 percent fine distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P0904. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; common fine distinct 2.5Y64 mottles
    Bt2—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 50 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses and 10 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P0904. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; common fine distinct 2.5Y62 mottles
    2Bt3—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 15 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses and 1 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions throughout and 11 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume rounded ? to 7-? millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P0905. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles; few fine distinct 2.5Y62 mottles
    2BC—109 to 140 centimeters (42.9 to 55.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses and 1 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions throughout and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P0905. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common medium distinct 10YR56 mottles; few fine distinct 2.5Y62 mottles
    2C—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior loam; structureless massive; firm; 1 percent fine iron-manganese masses and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 84P0906. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common medium distinct 10YR56 mottles; common fine distinct 2.5Y62 mottles