IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cowden
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974IL135001
  • User Pedon ID: 1974IL135001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 74IL135001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20760
  • 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: 39.2330332
  • Std. Longitude: -89.5535810
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 350 feet north and 1300 feet west of southeast corner
  • Location Description: 350 feet north and 20 feet east of southeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL135—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL135—Montgomery County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39089-B5—Butler, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JSL, JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic Albaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowden
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2009
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cowden
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • 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
  • 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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23020
    A21—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and gray (10YR 5/1) silt loam; weak medium platy structure; friable; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23021
    A22—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23022
    B2&A2—41 to 46 centimeters (16.1 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23023
    B21—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; gray (10YR 5/1), moist, and dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23024
    B22—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) coarse mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23025
    B31—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) coarse mottles; weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 roots; very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23026
    B32—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 25 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) coarse mottles; weak coarse angular blocky structure; 3.0 roots; 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23027
    C—127 to 145 centimeters (50.0 to 57.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) coarse mottles; massive; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # IL23028