IDENTIFIERS

Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marseilles

OSD

Series Extent

User Site ID: 1977IL095079

User Pedon ID: 1977IL095079

Lab Information:

Certified Lab Pedon Description - no

Lab Source ID - IL SCL

Lab Pedon # - 77IL095079

NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20938

Print Date: 1/30/2025

LOCATION

Township: 12N

Range: 3E

Section: 27

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 #: 79

Correlated Information:

Soil Name - Marseilles

PSC - 30 to 80 cm.

Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010

Moisture Class - udic

Moisture Subclass - typic

Sampled As Information:

Soil Name - Gosport

Classificaton Date - 11/1/1977

Dynamic Soil Properties:

Erosion Class - 1

Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no

Hydric: no

SITE

Parent Material: Peoria loess over shale and sandstone bedrock

Landform: hillslope, ridge

Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope

Runoff: medium

Drainage Class: well

Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone and shale at 69cm

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 - 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	69 - 152	—

Pedon Diagnostic Features
Feature Kind	Feature Depth L-H	Feature Thickness L-RV-H
	cm
ochric epipedon argillic horizon paralithic contact	0—10 30—69 69—152	—- —- —-

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 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear boundary. Lab sample # IL25041

B1—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25042

B2—30 to 69 centimeters (11.8 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint and 10 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; faint brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent distinct red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25043. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481228; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481228

Cr—69 to 152 centimeters (27.2 to 59.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) and olive (5Y 5/3) silt loam; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; medium platy structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume rounded moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # IL25044