IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ava
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IL065006
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IL065006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 77IL065006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20862
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.9402773
  • Std. Longitude: -88.6603707
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1340 feet south and 75 feet west of the center
  • 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-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ava
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ava
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1977 (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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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2. Lab sample # IL24663
    B21t—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24664
    B22t—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear boundary. Lab sample # IL24665
    Bx1—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear boundary. Lab sample # IL24666
    IIBx2—79 to 127 centimeters (31.1 to 50.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments and 1 percent by volume rounded mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; clear boundary. Lab sample # IL24667
    IIBx3—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam, gravel; pale brown (10YR 6/3) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent by volume rounded mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; gradual boundary. Lab sample # IL24668