IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Littleton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL083001
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL083001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL083001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20963
  • 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: 39.0886093
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5608411
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 32
  • Location Description: 400FT W of center of Rt.100,at edge of Nutwood,60FT from NW corner of Nutwood
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL083—Jersey
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL083—Jersey County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39090-A5—Nutwood, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MAF, JBF, BWR
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Littleton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Littleton
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1978 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—66

    66—137

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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

    1.5

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    128

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; 25 percent worm casts; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23330
    A1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; 25 percent worm casts in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23331
    A3—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; 25 percent worm casts in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23332
    B21—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 1 percent brown (10YR 4/3) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 roots between peds; 25 percent worm casts in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23333
    B22—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint and 1 percent brown (10YR 4/3) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 roots between peds; 25 percent worm casts in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23334
    B23—109 to 137 centimeters (42.9 to 53.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint and 25 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) medium faint mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 1 percent fine prominent masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 25 percent worm casts in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23335
    C—137 to 168 centimeters (53.9 to 66.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine faint and 25 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint and 25 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) medium faint mottles; structureless massive; friable; 1 percent fine masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 25 percent worm casts in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # IL23336