IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marseilles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL095073
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL095073
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL095073
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21032
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.0709364
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4165896
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1023 feet E & 2574 feet N of the SW corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL095—Knox
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL095—Knox County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41090-A4—North Henderson, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RDW
  • 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 #: 73
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marseilles
  • PSC - 20 to 70 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
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale and siltstone at 56cm
  • 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

    56 - 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

    20—56

    56—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

    30

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    220

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25779
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3) fine faint mottles; weak thick platy structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25780
    B2—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) fine faint and 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25781. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481230; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481230
    B3—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent masses of oxidized iron in matrix; mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 1 percent by volume angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25782. patchy - phpvsfiid 481229; patchy - phpvsfiid 481229
    Cr—56 to 152 centimeters (22.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; structureless massive, and platy; very firm; mica flakes, unspecified; angular strongly coherent cemented siltstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # IL25783