IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Atlas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IL049021
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IL049021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81IL049021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21342
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 39.2058979
  • Std. Longitude: -88.5537986
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1890 feet north and 2320 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL049—Effingham
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL049—Effingham County, Illinois
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LLB, MBL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aeric Chromic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Atlas
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2009
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blair
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess and/or glacial till
  • Landscape: upland, till plain
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—15

    15—79

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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

    5

    188

    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots between peds; 1 percent fine prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28023
    B21t—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay loam; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 roots between peds; 1 percent fine prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28024
    B22t—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 roots between peds; faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent 10YR 2/ (10YR 2/), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28025. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460308; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460308
    B23t—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 roots between peds; distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28026. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460309; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460309
    IIB24t—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) clay loam; 1 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) fine faint and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28027. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460310; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460310
    IIB3—79 to 94 centimeters (31.1 to 37.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3) medium faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28028. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460311; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460311
    IIC—94 to 117 centimeters (37.0 to 46.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on surfaces along root channels; 1 percent fine prominent white (10YR 8/1), moist, carbonate concretions in matrix; 1 percent by volume rounded strongly coherent cemented mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # IL28029. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460312; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460312