IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Marissa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1987IL027039
  • User Pedon ID: 1987IL027039
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87IL027039
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22045
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025
  • 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: 38.5174056
  • Std. Longitude: -89.5783917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 2310 feet S & 1465 feet W of NE corner
  • Location Description: Germantown Township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL027—Clinton
  • MLRA: 114—Southern Illinois and Indiana Thin Loess and Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL027—Clinton County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38089-E5—Breese, Illinois
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DBG
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Argiaquic Argialbolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: variant
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 39
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Marissa
  • PSC - 71 to 121 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marissa
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1987
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1987 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

    125

    AP—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33418
    E—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; friable; 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33419
    Bt1—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33420
    Bt2—71 to 107 centimeters (28.0 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 25 percent distinct gray (10YR 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33421
    2BC—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; 10 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; 10 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4. Lab sample # IL33422