IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marseilles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL073091
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL073091
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL073091
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20997
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 41.3107678
  • Std. Longitude: -90.0893402
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet N & 400 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: In grass
  • 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-C1—German Corner, 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 #: 91
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marseilles
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gosport
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over shale residuum
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—18

    28—99

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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

    35

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    216

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; moderate very fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25469
    B1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine granular structure; friable; faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25470
    B21—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25471
    IIB22—46 to 81 centimeters (18.1 to 31.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25472
    IIB3—81 to 99 centimeters (31.9 to 39.0 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25473
    IIC1—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25474
    IIC2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # IL25475