IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1928IL083001
  • User Pedon ID: 1928IL083001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 28IL083001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20363
  • Print Date: 1/27/2025

    • 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: 39.1105583
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5235417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 27
  • Location Description: On top of a narrow, nearly level ridge
  • Map Unit: 280gC2—Fayette silt loam, glaciated, 5 to 10 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL083—Jersey
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-SPI—Springfield, Illinois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL083—Jersey County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39090-A2—Brighton, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John B Alexander and Charles E Downey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2010
  • Classifier - Rick Francen
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1928
  • Classifier - John B. Alexander and Charles E. Downey
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1928 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—36

    36—150

    —36—

    —114—
    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

    7

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    —

    210.4

    —

    210

    965

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    188

    13.1

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13095
    E—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular, and moderate medium platy structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13096
    Bt1—36 to 74 centimeters (14.2 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13097
    Bt2—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13098
    Bt3—91 to 150 centimeters (35.8 to 59.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13099
    C—150 to 224 centimeters (59.1 to 88.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; massive; friable; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # IL13100, IL13101. Horizon split for sampling: IL13100 150 to 185 cm, IL13101 185 to 224 cm.