IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IL133028
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IL133028
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80IL133028
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21249
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 38.4677711
  • Std. Longitude: -90.2140652
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1050 feet west and 1500 feet north of center
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL133—Monroe
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL133—Monroe County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SKH, RJC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 28
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1980 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    30—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

    7

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27357
    B1—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27358. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460026; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460026
    B21t—30 to 64 centimeters (11.8 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, lamotte-morgan; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27359. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460027; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460027
    B22t—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate angular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, lamotte-morgan; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27360. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460028; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460028
    B23t—94 to 124 centimeters (37.0 to 48.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and prominent white (10YR 8/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, lamotte-morgan; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27361. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460029; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460030; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460029; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460030
    B31t—124 to 142 centimeters (48.8 to 55.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and prominent white (10YR 8/1), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, lamotte-morgan; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27362. patchy - phpvsfiid 460032; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460031; patchy - phpvsfiid 460032; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460031
    B32t—142 to 152 centimeters (55.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # IL27363. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460033; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460033