IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marseilles

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 1977IL095078

User Pedon ID: 1977IL095078

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - IL SCL

Lab Pedon # - 77IL095078

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20937

Print Date: 11/21/2024

LOCATION

Township: 12N

Range: 3E

Section: 35

Location Description: Copley Township

State: Illinois

County: IL095—Knox

Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL095—Knox County, Illinois

PEDON

Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs

Current Taxon Kind: series

Pedon Type: map unit inclusion

Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory

Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC

Pedon #: 78

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Marseilles

PSC - 23 to 73 cm.

Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - typic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Gosport

Classificaton Date - 10/1/1977

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: Peoria loess over shale bedrock

Landform: drainageway, hillslope

Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope

Runoff: low

Drainage Class: moderately well

Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone and shale at 94cm

Surface Fragments:

Benchmark Soil?: no

VEGETATION

SITE OBSERVATION

Observation Date: 10/1/1977 (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 -

Pedon Restrictions
Kind	Hardness	Restriction Depth L-H	Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
		cm
bedrock, paralithic	strongly coherent	94 - 109	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon argillic horizon paralithic contact	0—8 23—94 94—109	—- —- —-

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
—	—	—	—	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25036

B1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25037

B2—23 to 66 centimeters (9.1 to 26.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silt loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium platy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 25 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25038

B3—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silt loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent fine prominent red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 25 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25039

Cr—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and olive gray (5Y 5/2) bedrock; coarse platy structure; extremely firm; angular moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments and angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # IL25040