IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IL119081
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IL119081
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79IL119081
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21082
  • 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: 38.9318009
  • Std. Longitude: -89.8938722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 726 feet S and 1584 feet W of the NE corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL119—Madison
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL119—Madison County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P Youngstrum, D Rahe
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 81
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elco
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/5/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Elco
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or Roxana loess and/or Illinoian till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1979 (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—18

    18—163

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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

    12

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26462
    B21t—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; brown (10YR 5/3) and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 25 percent faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine faint irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26463
    IIB22t—46 to 86 centimeters (18.1 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine faint irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26464. patchy - phpvsfiid 459532; patchy - phpvsfiid 459532
    IIB23tb—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; firm; faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine faint irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26465. patchy - phpvsfiid 459533; patchy - phpvsfiid 459533
    IIB24tb—112 to 137 centimeters (44.1 to 53.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; very firm; brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, organoargillans on surfaces along pores and 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix; 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26466. continuous - phpvsfiid 459535; continuous - phpvsfiid 459535
    IIB25tb—137 to 163 centimeters (53.9 to 64.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; very friable; faint brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, organoargillans on surfaces along pores and 25 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent fine distinct irregular iron-manganese masses in matrix; 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # IL26467. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459536; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 459536