IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1928IL133001
  • User Pedon ID: 1928IL133001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 28IL133001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20364
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.3272871
  • Std. Longitude: -90.1936366
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 27
  • Location Description: 30 FT N of intersection of private road with Rt. 156
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL133—Monroe
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL133—Monroe County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1928
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over till
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1928 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3); weak fine granular structure; friable; ; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13000
    A2—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4); weak medium platy structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13001
    B1—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4); moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13002. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429020; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429020
    B21—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4); strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13003. continuous - phpvsfiid 429018; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429019; continuous - phpvsfiid 429018; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429019
    B22—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4); strong coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 10 percent iron-manganese concretions between peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13004. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429017; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429017
    B31—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4); moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent iron-manganese concretions between peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429021; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429021
    B32—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4); weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429022; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 429022
    C—152 to 178 centimeters (59.8 to 70.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4); massive; friable; fragments.