IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Westmore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979IL157064
  • User Pedon ID: 1979IL157064
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79IL157064
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21163
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 37.9490488
  • Std. Longitude: -89.6993231
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet S & 800 feet W of center
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL157—Randolph
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL157—Randolph County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37089-H6—Welge, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CCM, RWS, DJF
  • 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 #: 64
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmore
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Westmore
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess over siltstone and sandstone residuum
  • Landform: hillslope, ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 124cm
  • 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 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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—10

    15—102

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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

    22

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    155

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    A0—0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; 3 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26759; observed in pit, small
    A2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) silt loam; weak prismatic parts to massive; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; 4 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26760; observed in pit, small
    B1—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; 2 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26761; observed in pit, small
    B21t—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26762; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 480709; patchy - phpvsfiid 480709
    B22t—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 roots between peds; faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26763; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 480710; continuous - phpvsfiid 480710
    IIB23t—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 roots between peds; prominent brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26764; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 480705; continuous - phpvsfiid 480705
    IIB24t—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); 20 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay; 10 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 roots between peds; distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; 15 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, lamotte-morgan; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL26765; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 480707; patchy - phpvsfiid 480707
    IIB25t—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and gray (10YR 6/1) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 roots between peds; prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, and brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; 25 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, lamotte-morgan; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL26766; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 480706; continuous - phpvsfiid 480706
    IIB3—102 to 124 centimeters (40.2 to 48.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and brown (10YR 5/3) and pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay, gravel; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; prominent reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; 65 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, lamotte-morgan; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL26767; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 480708; patchy - phpvsfiid 480708
    IIR—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); bedrock; prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, and brown (10YR 5/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; angular strongly coherent cemented sandstone, unspecified fragments.; observed in pit, small