IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Petrolia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989IL027087
  • User Pedon ID: 1989IL027087
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89IL027087
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22142
  • Print Date: 5/2/2025

    • 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: 38.4988028
  • Std. Longitude: -89.4576944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet west and 400 feet south of the center
  • Location Description: Santa Fe Township
  • Map Unit: 3288A—Petrolia silty clay loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Ward Lenz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Fluvaquentic Endoaquepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 87
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Petrolia
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Petrolia
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (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

    cambic horizon

    0—15

    15—160

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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

    1

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    125

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; mottles; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 0.6 very fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34186
    Cg1—15 to 53 centimeters (5.9 to 20.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 fine roots between peds; faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and ; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34189. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428309; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428309
    Cg2—53 to 117 centimeters (20.9 to 46.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; 1 percent faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34194. continuous - phpvsfiid 428311; continuous - phpvsfiid 428311
    Cg3—117 to 160 centimeters (46.1 to 63.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silty clay loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium prominent and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; friable; faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent iron-manganese concretions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34197. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428308; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 428308