IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1963IL003001
  • User Pedon ID: 1963IL003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 63IL003001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20528
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 37.3049872
  • Std. Longitude: -89.4728625
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 18
  • Location Description: Cut on SW side of T road junction
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL003—Alexander
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL003—Alexander County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF, AB, RLJ
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL19341
    A2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    B1—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    B21—38 to 91 centimeters (15.0 to 35.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 25 percent gray (10YR 5/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL19342. continuous - phpvsfiid 428991; continuous - phpvsfiid 428991
    B22—91 to 163 centimeters (35.8 to 64.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, and gray (10YR 5/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 428994; continuous - phpvsfiid 428994
    B3—163 to 269 centimeters (64.2 to 105.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm; reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, and brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    C11—269 to 330 centimeters (105.9 to 129.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    C12—330 to 605 centimeters (129.9 to 238.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) mottles; massive; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL19343
    C2—605 to 665 centimeters (238.2 to 261.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL19344
    C31—665 to 691 centimeters (261.8 to 272.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary.
    C32—691 to 772 centimeters (272.0 to 303.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    C33—772 to 859 centimeters (303.9 to 338.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL19345
    C34—859 to 917 centimeters (338.2 to 361.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    C35—917 to 1011 centimeters (361.0 to 398.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silt loam; massive; friable; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented chert fragments; gradual smooth boundary.