IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ava
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984IL121103
  • User Pedon ID: 1984IL121103
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84IL121103
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21740
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 38.5067639
  • Std. Longitude: -88.8449167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 660 feet N and 660 feet E of SE corner
  • Location Description: Jerry Phillips Farm, center of SE 1/4 of Sec.23
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL121—Marion
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL121—Marion County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38088-E7—Iuka, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 103
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ava
  • PSC - 29 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ava
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over outwash
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1984 (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 -
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31153
    Bt1—15 to 29 centimeters (5.9 to 11.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31154. patchy - phpvsfiid 478833; patchy - phpvsfiid 478833
    Bt2—29 to 43 centimeters (11.4 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 10 percent pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31155
    2Bx—43 to 96 centimeters (16.9 to 37.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; gray (7.5YR 6/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31156
    2C1—96 to 130 centimeters (37.8 to 51.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; massive; firm; 3.0 fine pores; 10 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31157
    2C2—130 to 150 centimeters (51.2 to 59.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) sandy loam; massive; firm; 3.0 fine pores; 10 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # IL31158