IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marseilles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL095062
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL095062
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL095062
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21029
  • 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: 40.9805932
  • Std. Longitude: -90.0772948
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet E & 2000 feet N of SW 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: 40090-H1—Williamsfield, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 62
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marseilles
  • PSC - 33 to 83 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 - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landform: drainageway, hillslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone and shale at 61cm
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    61 - 152

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—20

    33—61

    61—152

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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

    15

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    226

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 medium roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25761
    A2—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak thin platy structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25762. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481227; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481227
    B1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25763
    B21—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and 1 percent gray (10YR 6/1) fine faint mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25764
    B22—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; strong thick platy parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely firm; 10 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25765
    Cr—61 to 152 centimeters (24.0 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) loam; strong thick platy structure; extremely firm; angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments and angular moderately coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # IL25766