IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tamalco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IL133040
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IL133040
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79IL133040
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21142
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 38.2295331
  • Std. Longitude: -90.0489513
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 780 feet W & 320 feet S of center
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL133—Monroe
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL133—Monroe County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38090-B1—Ames, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SKH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquic Natrudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 40
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tamalco
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tamalco
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    natric

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    94 - 152

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    natric horizon

    0—20

    36—109

    94—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

    3

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    160

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26554; observed in push tube
    B1—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint and 10 percent red (2.5YR 5/8) medium prominent mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26555; observed in push tube
    B21t—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 25 percent faint brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26556; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 480233; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 480233
    B22t—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 10 percent prominent brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26557; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 480231; patchy - phpvsfiid 480231
    B23t—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium prominent and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 10 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26558; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 480230; patchy - phpvsfiid 480230
    B3t—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 10 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26559; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 480232; patchy - phpvsfiid 480232
    C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silt loam; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium prominent mottles; structureless massive; friable; 10 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # IL26560; observed in push tube