IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IL073018
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IL073018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 77IL073018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20906
  • 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: 41.3177427
  • Std. Longitude: -90.1252136
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 2340 feet S & 54 feet E of the NW corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL073—Henry
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL073—Henry County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41090-C2—Cambridge, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elco
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elco
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess over Illinoian till with strongly developed Sangamon age paleosol
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—135

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    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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    14

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    230

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24814
    B1t—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine granular structure; friable; faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24815. patchy - phpvsfiid 480746; patchy - phpvsfiid 480746
    B21t—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24816. patchy - phpvsfiid 480744; patchy - phpvsfiid 480744
    B22t—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24817. continuous - phpvsfiid 480745; continuous - phpvsfiid 480745
    IIB23t—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; distinct grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24818. continuous - phpvsfiid 480747; continuous - phpvsfiid 480747
    IIB24t—99 to 135 centimeters (39.0 to 53.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24819. patchy - phpvsfiid 480748; patchy - phpvsfiid 480748
    IIB3—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # IL24820