Major Land Resource Area 110X
Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
Accessed: 12/21/2024
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock <1.5m (60")
- Bedrock is limestone
- Light surface (ochric epipedon) or dark surface <15cm (6")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock <1.5m (60")
- Bedrock is sandstone
- Light surface (ochric epipedon) or dark surface <25cm (10")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock >1.5m (60")
- Loess (or other silty or loamy material), loamy glaciofluvial deposits, loamy outwsah, glacial till, lacustrine sediments
- Light surface (ochric epipedon) or dark surface <15cm (6")
- Depth to seasonal high-water table >76cm (30")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock >1.5m (60")
- Loess (or other silty or loamy material), loamy glaciofluvial deposits, loamy outwsah, glacial till, lacustrine sediments
- Light surface (ochric epipedon) or dark surface <15cm (6")
- Depth to seasonal high-water table 45-76cm (18-30")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Sands or coarse-textured outwash
- Light surface (ochric epipedon) or dark surface <15cm (6")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Depressions
- Lacustrine deposits, P-drained, restricted to Wisconsin
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Key Characteristics
- River Valleys
- Flooded only
- Alluvium, depth to seasonal high-water table >45cm (18")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock <1.5m (60")
- Bedrock is limestone
- Dark surface (mollic epipedon) >25cm (10")
- Depth to seasonal high-water table >30cm (12")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock <1.5m (60")
- Bedrock is limestone
- Dark surface (mollic epipedon) >25cm (10")
- Depth to seasonal high-water table <30cm (12")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock <1.5m (60")
- Bedrock is sandstone
- Dark surface (mollic epipedon) >25cm (10")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock >1.5m (60")
- Loess (or other silty or loamy material), loamy glaciofluvial deposits, loamy outwsah, glacial till, lacustrine sediments
- Dark surface (mollis epipedon) >25cm (10")
- Depth to seasonal high-water table >183cm (72")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock >1.5m (60")
- Loess (or other silty or loamy material), loamy glaciofluvial deposits, loamy outwsah, glacial till, lacustrine sediments
- Dark surface (mollis epipedon) >25cm (10")
- Depth to seasonal high-water table 30-183cm (12-72")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock >1.5m (60")
- Loess (or other silty or loamy material), loamy glaciofluvial deposits, loamy outwsah, glacial till, lacustrine sediments
- Dark surface (mollis epipedon) >25cm (10")
- Depth to seasonal high-water table <30cm (12")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock >1.5m (60")
- Loess (or other silty or loamy material), loamy glaciofluvial deposits, loamy outwsah, glacial till, lacustrine sediments
- Dark surface (mollic intergrade) 15-25cm (6-10") or Inceptisols
- Depth to seasonal high-water table >183cm (72")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Bedrock >1.5m (60")
- Loess (or other silty or loamy material), loamy glaciofluvial deposits, loamy outwsah, glacial till, lacustrine sediments
- Dark surface (mollic intergrade) 15-25cm (6-10") or Inceptisols
- Depth to seasonal high-water table 30-183cm (12-72")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Sands or coarse-textured outwash
- Dark surface (mollic epipedon) >25cm (10")
- Depth to seasonal high-water table >130cm (51")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Sands or coarse-textured outwash
- Dark surface (mollic epipedon) >25cm (10")
- Depth to seasonal high-water table 38-130cm (15-51")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Sands or coarse-textured outwash
- Dark surface (mollic epipedon) >25cm (10")
- Depth to seasonal high-water table <30cm (12")
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
- Slopes <12 percent
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
- Slopes 12-20 percent
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
- Gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
- Slopes >20 percent
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Depressions
- Organic soils, pH <4.5, restricted to Cook and Lake counties (IL) and Wisconsin
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Depressions
- Organic soils, pH 6.6+, restricted to Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, and McHenry counties (IL) and Wisconsin
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Depressions
- Organic material over sandy outwash, restricted to Kankakee Sand area
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Depressions
- Organic material over sandy outwash, restricted to Lake Michigan Dune area
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Depressions
- Organic and mineral soils, circumneutral, recharge wetland
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Key Characteristics
- Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
- Depressions
- Mineral soils, calcareous surface, discharge wetland
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Key Characteristics
- River Valleys
- Flooded and ponded
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Key Characteristics
- River Valleys
- Flooded only
- Alluvium, depth to seasonal high-water table <15cm (6")
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MLRA 110 Key to Ecological Sites
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Uplands and high stream terraces (non-flooded)
A.
Summits, shoulders, and backslopes
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Bedrock <1.5m (60")
i.
Bedrock is limestone
a.
Dark surface (mollic epipedon) >25cm (10")
ii.
Bedrock is sandstone
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Bedrock >1.5m (60")
i.
Loess (or other silty or loamy material), loamy glaciofluvial deposits, loamy outwsah, glacial till, lacustrine sediments
a.
Dark surface (mollis epipedon) >25cm (10")
1)
Depth to seasonal high-water table >183cm (72")
... R110XY006IL – Dry Glacial Drift Upland Prairie
2)
Depth to seasonal high-water table 30-183cm (12-72")
... R110XY007IL – Moist Glacial Drift Upland Prairie
3)
Depth to seasonal high-water table <30cm (12")
... R110XY008IL – Wet Glacial Drift Upland Prairie
b.
Dark surface (mollic intergrade) 15-25cm (6-10") or Inceptisols
1)
Depth to seasonal high-water table >183cm (72")
... R110XY009IL – Dry Glacial Drift Upland Savanna
2)
Depth to seasonal high-water table 30-183cm (12-72")
... R110XY010IL – Moist Glacial Drift Upland Savanna
c.
Light surface (ochric epipedon) or dark surface <15cm (6")
2)
Depth to seasonal high-water table 45-76cm (18-30")
... F110XY012IL – Moist Glacial Drift Upland Forest
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Sands or coarse-textured outwash
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Dark surface (mollic epipedon) >25cm (10")
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Gravelly glaciofluvial deposits
B.
Depressions
1
Organic soils, pH <4.5, restricted to Cook and Lake counties (IL) and Wisconsin
... R110XY020IL – Ponded Organic Acidic Peatland
2
Organic soils, pH 6.6+, restricted to Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, and McHenry counties (IL) and Wisconsin
... R110XY021IL – Ponded Organic Alkaline Peatland
3
Organic material over sandy outwash, restricted to Kankakee Sand area
... R110XY022IL – Organic Sand Seep
4
Organic material over sandy outwash, restricted to Lake Michigan Dune area
... R110XY023IL – Organic Interdunal Fen
5
Organic and mineral soils, circumneutral, recharge wetland
... R110XY024IL – Ponded Depressional Sedge Meadow
6
Mineral soils, calcareous surface, discharge wetland
... R110XY025IL – Ponded Calcareous Sedge Meadow
II.
River Valleys
B.
Flooded only
1
Alluvium, depth to seasonal high-water table >45cm (18")
... F110XY028IL – Silty-Loamy Floodplain Forest
2
Alluvium, depth to seasonal high-water table <15cm (6")
... R110XY029IL – Wet Floodplain Sedge Meadow
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