IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morristown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IL157022
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IL157022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 77IL157022
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20897
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 38.0440085
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6028452
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet north and 2635 feet east of southwest corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL157—Randolph
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL157—Randolph County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38089-A5—Percy, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CCM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, calcareous, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morristown
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arents
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; rounded mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # IL25260
    C5—38 to 102 centimeters (15.0 to 40.2 inches); variegated grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) silty clay loam; massive; firm; 25 percent by volume rounded mixed fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # IL25262, IL25261. Horizon split for sampling: IL25261 38 to 51 cm, IL25262 89 to 102 cm.