IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frondorf
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IL065002
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IL065002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 77IL065002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20858
  • 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: 37.9552076
  • Std. Longitude: -88.6458646
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 34
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL065—Hamilton
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL065—Hamilton County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37088-H6—Akin, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Frondorf
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frondorf
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1977 (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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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam, highly decomposed plant material; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24637
    A2—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; moderate fine platy structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24638
    B21t—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on top faces of peds; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24639. continuous - phpvsfiid 465186; patchy - phpvsfiid 465187; continuous - phpvsfiid 465186; patchy - phpvsfiid 465187
    B22t—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume flat mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24640
    IIB3t—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 50 percent by volume mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL24641
    IICr—61 to 71 centimeters (24.0 to 28.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; massive; firm; yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 30 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7. Lab sample # IL24642
    IIR—71 to 74 centimeters (28.0 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) loam; 50 percent by volume siltstone, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments.