IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Atlas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988IL027068
  • User Pedon ID: 1988IL027068
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88IL027068
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22091
  • 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: 38.7370139
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1631583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet west and 100 feet south of northeast corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL027—Clinton
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL027—Clinton County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aeric Chromic Vertic Epiaqualfs
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 68
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Atlas
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Atlas
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or Illinoian till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: drainageway
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1988 (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 -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—140

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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

    7

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    143.3

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33774
    Bt1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; 1 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct and 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33775. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428824; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428824
    Bt1g—25 to 58 centimeters (9.8 to 22.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33776. continuous - phpvsfiid 428825; continuous - phpvsfiid 428825
    Bt2g—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33777. continuous - phpvsfiid 428829; continuous - phpvsfiid 428829
    Bt3g—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33778. continuous - phpvsfiid 428826; continuous - phpvsfiid 428826
    Bt4g—104 to 140 centimeters (40.9 to 55.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL33779. continuous - phpvsfiid 428827; continuous - phpvsfiid 428827
    BCg—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loam; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; distinct dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # IL33780. continuous - phpvsfiid 428828; continuous - phpvsfiid 428828