IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hosmer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1981IL145038
  • User Pedon ID: 1981IL145038
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81IL145038
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21376
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.0832774
  • Std. Longitude: -89.4632241
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 680 feet south and 86 feet west of northeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL145—Perry
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL145—Perry County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DRG, SJI
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 38
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hosmer
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hosmer
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1981
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    fragipan

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    91 - 127

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—25

    25—178

    91—127

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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

    3

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    171

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28454. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460536; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460536
    A2—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28455
    B1t—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28456. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460537; patchy - phpvsfiid 460538; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460537; patchy - phpvsfiid 460538
    B&A—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine distinct and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28457. continuous - phpvsfiid 460535; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460539; continuous - phpvsfiid 460535; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460539
    B21t—51 to 74 centimeters (20.1 to 29.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and prominent light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28458. continuous - phpvsfiid 460540; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460541; continuous - phpvsfiid 460540; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460541
    B22t—74 to 91 centimeters (29.1 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28459. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460542; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460543; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460542; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 460543
    Bx23t—91 to 127 centimeters (35.8 to 50.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; distinct brown (10YR 5/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL28460. patchy - phpvsfiid 460544; patchy - phpvsfiid 460545; patchy - phpvsfiid 460544; patchy - phpvsfiid 460545
    B31t—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) silt loam; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # IL28461. patchy - phpvsfiid 460546; patchy - phpvsfiid 460546
    IIB32t—178 centimeters (70.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # IL28462