IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Worthen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL083004
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL083004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL083004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20966
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 39.1431780
  • Std. Longitude: -90.5613301
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 17
  • Location Description: 25YDS E of center of rd,15YDS W of edge of trees
  • 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-B5—Hardin, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MAF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Worthen
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Worthen
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty local alluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1978 (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

    3—66

    66—114

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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

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    140

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    A1—3 to 51 centimeters (1.2 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; 25 percent worm casts in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23368
    A3—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; 25 percent worm casts in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23369
    B2—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; 25 percent worm casts in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23370
    B3—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; 25 percent worm casts in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL23371
    C—114 to 130 centimeters (44.9 to 51.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 0.6 roots between peds; 25 percent worm casts in matrix; fragments. Lab sample # IL23372