IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marseilles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL095061
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL095061
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL095061
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21028
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.0033013
  • Std. Longitude: -90.0407381
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet E & 132 feet S of the NW corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL095—Knox
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL095—Knox County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41090-A1—Victoria, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MK
  • 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 #: 61
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marseilles
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shale soil
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landform: drainageway, hillslope
  • Runoff: high
  • 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 - 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 -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    36—86

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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

    30

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    224

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    A11—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25754
    A12—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25755. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481203; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481203
    B1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak fine angular blocky structure; friable; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25756. patchy - phpvsfiid 481204; patchy - phpvsfiid 481204
    B21—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium distinct mottles; weak fine angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25757
    B22—56 to 69 centimeters (22.0 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct and 5 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium distinct mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25758
    B3—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and 10 percent gray (10YR 6/1) medium distinct mottles; weak thick platy structure; firm; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25759
    C—86 to 152 centimeters (33.9 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; structureless massive; very firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # IL25760