IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gosport
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IL009017
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IL009017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81IL009017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21280
  • 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: 40.0791132
  • Std. Longitude: -90.8636471
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1140 feet north and 2480 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL009—Brown
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL009—Brown County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, illitic, mesic Oxyaquic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gosport
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gosport
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: shale residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope, escarpment
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent shale, clayey at 76cm
  • Geology: Pennsylvania Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1981 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    76 - 152

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    15—76

    76—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

    50

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    213

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    180

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); olive (5Y 4/3), pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A2—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) and olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; weak medium platy structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 1 percent by volume angular weakly coherent cemented shale, clayey fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27755
    B1—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 1 percent by volume angular weakly coherent cemented shale, clayey fragments and 1 percent by volume claystone fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27756
    B2—46 to 58 centimeters (18.1 to 22.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay; 1 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) fine and 10 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 25 percent by volume claystone fragments and 25 percent by volume angular weakly coherent cemented shale, clayey fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27757
    B3—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3) silty clay; 10 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; prominent iron-manganese masses around rock fragments; 25 percent by volume claystone fragments and 25 percent by volume angular weakly coherent cemented shale, clayey fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL27758
    Cr—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay; weak medium platy structure; extremely firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; prominent iron-manganese masses around rock fragments; angular weakly coherent cemented shale, clayey fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, lamotte-morgan.