IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tamalco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IL145002
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IL145002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79IL145002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21150
  • 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: 37.9658766
  • Std. Longitude: -89.2195551
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 1432 feet E & 242 feet N of the SW corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL145—Perry
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL145—Perry County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37089-H2—Elkville, Illinois
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DRG
  • 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 #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tamalco
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tamalco
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess over Roxana loess over Illinoian Farmdale till with geosol
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1979 (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

    25 - 74

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

    ochric epipedon

    natric horizon

    0—25

    25—74

    —-

    —-

    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

    1

    125

    180

    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26617; observed in push tube
    A2—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 1 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine prominent mottles; weak medium platy parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 10 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26618; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 480236; patchy - phpvsfiid 480236
    B21t—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium faint mottles; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, organoargillans on surfaces along root channels and 25 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26619; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 480234; patchy - phpvsfiid 480235; patchy - phpvsfiid 480234; patchy - phpvsfiid 480235
    B22t—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26620; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 480238; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 480238
    B23t—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium prominent and 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26621; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 480237; patchy - phpvsfiid 480237
    B3—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 1 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) medium prominent and 25 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 10 percent medium prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 10 percent distinct carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26622; observed in push tube
    IIC—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) silt loam; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) coarse prominent mottles; structureless massive; friable; 1 percent fine prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix; 10 percent prominent carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7. Lab sample # IL26623; observed in push tube