IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marseilles
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978IL095074
  • User Pedon ID: 1978IL095074
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78IL095074
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21033
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 41.0707281
  • Std. Longitude: -90.4161451
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1188 feet E & 2508 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 #: 74
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marseilles
  • PSC - 23 to 73 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: hillslope, drainageway
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent shale and siltstone at 71cm
  • 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

    strongly coherent

    71 - 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—23

    23—53

    71—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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    221

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25784
    A2—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; moderate thick platy parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots between peds; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25785. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481218; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481218
    B21t—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25786. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481214; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481214
    B22t—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silica coats on all faces of peds and prominent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25787. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481217; patchy - phpvsfiid 481216; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 481217; patchy - phpvsfiid 481216
    B3—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); variegated grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; weak coarse angular blocky, and platy structure; firm; 0.1 fine roots between peds; faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 10 percent by volume shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25788. patchy - phpvsfiid 481215; patchy - phpvsfiid 481215
    Cr—71 to 152 centimeters (28.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) bedrock; structureless massive; very firm; 1 percent prominent masses of oxidized iron in matrix; angular strongly coherent cemented siltstone, unspecified fragments and angular strongly coherent cemented shale, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3.